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The Azure Compute team serves as the “kernel” of Microsoft’s Cloud Operating System, building a fault-tolerant distributed system atop commodity datacenter hardware. This infrastructure hosts cloud applications in virtual servers, creating the illusion of limitless, elastic, and always-available resources. The Azure Compute Manager plays a central role in orchestrating these capabilities.

The team is driving impactful work across several areas, including scaling clusters to manage 20 times more physical machines and services, improving virtual machine density, reducing fragmentation, and maximizing compute core utilization. We're also developing highly scalable and available microservices to form the next-generation Compute Fabric, which will manage all Azure Compute services. Additionally, we're applying machine learning to build a smarter, event-aware kernel that adapts to datacenter conditions to improve service uptime and availability.

Current projects include building large-scale services that prioritize capacity for different customer segments using real-time signals and ML models. We're expanding microservices to support Azure Networking, Storage, SQL, and fraud prevention, ensuring capacity is reliably allocated. Enhancements to the Compute billing pipeline will support Azure’s growth over the next decade, scaling beyond hundreds of millions of resources billed hourly. Our approach combines algorithmic innovation, architectural changes, and workflow optimizations to deliver rapid, reliable VM readiness

Azure is a big bet for Microsoft, and we are taking big bets of our own in the Compute team. If you’re interested in attacking hard technical problems and driving innovation in an area that has huge potential for impact on the company’s future, then this is THE position for you.

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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with source control and build systems.

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 1+ year(s) 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 with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) proficiency handling multiple workstreams in parallel.
• Experience implementing REST APIs and micro-services.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 10, 2025.

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts 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.