Overview

Calling for a Software Engineer II 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 Software Engineer II 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.

Responsibilities

• 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. Additionally, 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.
• Stay current with industry trends to improve reliability, efficiency, and observability of systems.
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, Python, Linux and Windows internals and systems programmingOR equivalent experience.
• Experience designing, building, and shipping high-quality production software or services

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in building large scale cloud services, operating systems, System on Chip (SoC) Architecture Native Window, Linux development, Rust programming language.
• Experience with Hyper-V, VMWare, Docker
  • OR other virtualization technologies.
• Knowledge of Performance profiling tools.
• Demonstrated ability to create componentized and well-architected software. 

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.