Senior Software Engineer

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • DevOps • Full Stack Development • $117,200 PA - $250,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft's Azure Core Compute Node Services team, you'll lead the development of features running on millions of nodes, ensuring industry-leading availability, reliability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements, designing and implementing high-quality code, optimizing performance, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for service degradation and release management, and proactively seeking new knowledge. You'll work on virtual machines, containers, and bare metal servers, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and contributing to the evolution of Azure's cloud infrastructure.
Must have:
  • 4+ years experience in software engineering
  • 3+ years building large-scale services
  • Experience with C, C++, C#, Java, or similar
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
  • Experience with release management
Good to have:
  • Experience with cloud services, operating systems, or SoC architecture
  • Knowledge of performance profiling tools
  • Experience with Hyper-V, VMWare, Docker
  • Rust programming language experience
  • Native Window/Linux development
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

Overview

Calling all software engineers with a passion for pushing the boundaries of cloud technology! Join our dynamic team at Azure Core Compute and be at the forefront of building the next generation cloud that will redefine how businesses scale, collaborate, and thrive.


We are one of the most profitable and fastest-growing businesses at Microsoft on the mission to make Azure the world’s computer powering all customer workloads! The Azure Core Compute Node Services team is responsible for materializing and managing customer-facing compute resources as virtual machines, containers and bare metal servers. We actively explore forward-looking technologies, evolving the host OS while utilizing hardware offloads and leveraging disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance, compliance and security.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that run on millions of nodes, work across organizations to meet the scale, elasticity, latency and reliability demands of our customers. You will have opportunities to learn new technologies and design the next version of services adapting to hardware evolution. You will have the freedom to ideate, create and provide thought leadership in bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices and grow into a senior technical or organizational leader.

If you’ve dreamed of making global impact and love creating value for customers while also having fun in a globally distributed, culturally diverse team, come talk to us today! 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, and/or any object oriented programming languages.
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years experience in building large scale services, operating systems, OR SoC architecture.
  • 1+ year(s) of experience in design, coding and shipping into production.

Other Qualifications:

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
    • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience in building large scale cloud services, operating systems, SoC architecture Native Window, Linux development,Rust programming language,
    • AND with Hyper-V, VMWare, Docker OR other virtualization technologies,
    • AND with improving service operations or engineering fundamentals.
  • Knowledge of Performance profiling tools.
  • Proven ability to create componentized and well-architected software.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 7, 2025

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Lead discussions to evolve the strategic direction of the product, collaborate on and create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping refine plans.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple organizations to determine requirements, co-ordinate and ship products. Leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution updates.
  • Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor and reuse code to achieve high quality, performance, reliability and security.
  • Independently create a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions. Identify the need for a broad versus selected approach in testing mechanisms and make informed decisions to implement the most effective tests.
  • Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, responding to any service degradation or downtime alarms, alerting stakeholders about status and initiating actions to restore service. Act as a DRI for release management, ensure the release sticks to the schedule by identifying reasons for blockers/delays, improve the signals that are blocking deployments, triage the issues as new vs existing, mitigate and work towards improving the release process.
  • Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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