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Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$235kDetected 1 day ago
JavaScriptPythonJavaC++C#Distributed SystemsAzureMachine LearningLLMsCollaborationMentoring

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About the role

  • This role is part of the Availability Platform team within Azure Compute, which focuses on ensuring every Azure virtual machine achieves a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99 percent or higher.
  • Meeting this target requires innovative thinking, data-driven decisions, and intelligent automation.
  • We are exploring generative artificial intelligence to enhance diagnostics, automate root cause analysis, and accelerate incident resolution.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders spanning across teams and orgs to determine project requirement.
  • Leads the design and architecture of change management features and services in Azure Compute
  • Identifies dependencies and authors design documents for features and services.Leverages expertise with appropriate stakeholders to develop project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Develops high quality, extensible, maintainable code and coaches others to do the same.Supports livesite as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • Collaborates with data scientists and ML engineers to design and integrate predictive models that proactively detect hardware anomalies and trigger live migrations, improving VM uptime and SLA compliance.Leads initiatives to embed AI-driven diagnostics and root cause analysis into availability services, reducing time-to-resolution for incidents and improving operational efficiency.
  • Drives the adoption of generative AI tools to automate documentation, incident summaries, and engineering workflows, enhancing team productivity and knowledge sharing.Partners with platform teams to build intelligent observability pipelines that leverage anomaly detection and trend analysis for early warning systems.
  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders spanning across teams and orgs to determine project requirement. Leads the design and architecture of change management features and services in Azure Compute
  • As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals.
  • The Azure Compute team builds a fault-tolerant, distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware to deliver infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual machines (VMs).
  • The team creates the illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

Requirements

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
  • This role offers hands-on experience with services architecture at hyperscale while pushing the boundaries of scale, reliability, availability, and efficiency.
  • 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

Nice to have

  • OR equivalent experience.
  • https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
  • 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.
  • 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 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

Compensation

  • $120k-$235k

Benefits

  • The team owns services that monitor the health of millions of Azure machines and the control plane services that make repair decisions.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • 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
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