Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 26, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you passionate about building secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure that powers millions of workloads worldwide? As a Software Engineer on the Azure Core Compute Node Services team, you will design and deliver features that run at hyperscale, advancing reliability, elasticity, and security for one of the world's largest cloud platforms.You will work on cutting-edge systems that evolve the host operating system, leverage hardware offloads, and enable disaggregated compute. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:Accelerate your career growth by tackling complex engineering challenges at global scale.Deepen your expertise in distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud security.bn Collaborate across organizations, driving technical innovation and influencing future Azure architecture.This opportunity is designed for engineers who thrive on impact, continuous learning, and collaboration. Flexible work options are available, including partial work-from-home arrangements.At Microsoft, our mission is empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, innovate for others, and collaborate to realize our goals. Our culture is built on respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone thrives.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements and conceptualize high-level designs for features and scenarios.Drive identification of dependencies and develop design documents for Azure Core Compute services.Create, implement, debug, refactor, and optimize code to improve maintainability, performance, and security. Partner with project managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define project and release plans, leveraging your expertise in distributed systems and service fundamentals.Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), contributing to on-call rotations, monitoring service health, and restoring services during incidents.Proactively learn new technologies, adapting to evolving technical patterns to improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance at scale.Serve as a technical contributor in building security-first features, influencing architecture and implementation across Azure Compute Node Services. | |