Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 26, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Azure offers customers a scalable, on-demand infrastructure and platform to build, host, and operate services across a global network of datacenters. At the heart of this ecosystem is the Azure Compute platform, which manages the health and lifecycle of millions of virtual machines, containers, and the underlying host infrastructure.We are part of the PilotFish Core team within Azure Compute, responsible for building distributed, high-scale foundational services that power the core of the Compute platform. Our systems enable other infrastructure components to operate with high performance and scalability. Today, our platform manages over 13 million servers worldwide, serving both first-party and third-party customers.As a fast-growing Research and Development (R&D) organization, we deliver critical production scenarios while also incubating new ideas. As a Software Engineer II in our team you will gain deep insights into how large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms are architected. You'll have the opportunity to work end-to-end on features-from prototyping and design to development, testing, and release-while accelerating your career growth through hands-on experience with customer-focused scenarios.At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, foster innovation, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we live our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
ResponsibilitiesWorks with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. | |