Senior Software Engineer

Do you love to work on the latest technologies? Do you want to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing to design, grow and evolve the Azure Network stack, supporting customers from the smallest server-less app to the largest AI Supercomputers? Do you want to be part of a highly motivated and passionate team that works together to do what it takes for our customers to be successful while having fun and learning along the way?

Azure runs one of the world’s largest networks, and it is growing incredibly fast! Think of any Microsoft service: Teams, Exchange, XCloud, SQL Azure, Office 365, ... Think of customers from Fortune 500 to a multitude of the large/medium/small customers. They run on the infrastructure that we, the Azure Core Networking team, builds. Beyond supporting our customers, our world-class team pushes the envelope on multiple areas of networking.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be engaged on designing, implementing, and integrating services in our physical network stack. These services manage hundreds of thousands of network switches, ensuring uptime, redundancy, predictable bandwidth and latency, and integration with other services the support the Azure Cloud. You’ll apply these skills to high-visibility projects that improve the capabilities and reach of our Cloud while continuously reducing operational costs.  Like the Cloud, our team is distributed, and supports multiple modes of hybrid work.

By applying to this U.S. based position, while remote work is possible, relocation does not apply/is not provided for the role.

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

• Design software components and services, based on stakeholder requirements and feedback, balancing cost, benefit and scheduling constraints.
• Develop software components and services, effectively reusing code, and working with owners of dependencies to ensure good integration.
• Enable automated validation, deployment, and monitoring for owned features, components and services.
• Use data analysis to evaluate systems' performance, availability and reliability in production, and to inform bug fixes and design evolution.
• Debug, optimize, refactor code to improve performance, reliability and maintenantbility.
• Act in an on-call capacity to address service degradation and downtime, recommend and drive process and system improvements to avoid future issues.
• You’ll apply these skills important projects that improve the capabilities and reach of our Cloud while continuously reducing operational costs.

Qualifications

Required Qualification: 

• 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, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• 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 with network systems
• Experience working on distributed systems
• Experience (or meaningful coursework) on data analyses

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

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