Senior Software Engineer - Azure Compute

Azure Compute Manager is the kernel of Microsoft’s compute cloud. We build fault-tolerant distributed systems on commodity datacenter hardware to host cloud applications on virtual servers and bare-metal instances, powering mission-critical, cloud-native, enterprise, and AI workloads. Our systems make Azure resources appear limitless, elastic, and always available.

The Core Control Plane team builds and runs the distributed systems that manage Azure Compute resources at hyperscale, including the services that provision, update, heal, migrate, monitor, and operate virtual machines and containers across Azure regions. The organization is modernizing Compute Manager services by moving from legacy control-plane systems to modern platforms and improving reliability, performance, and scale across Azure Compute Manager, Azure Host OS and Host Agent, Compute Resource Provider, Azure Networking, and related Azure Core components.

We are looking for Software Engineers to help build highly scalable services and world-class product experiences. In this role, you will work across the technology stack—from customer-facing experiences and full-stack web applications to backend APIs and distributed cloud services. You will design services that operate globally, collaborate with teams across Microsoft, and use modern web technologies in a dynamic, agile environment. You will join a diverse, collaborative team that embraces challenges, values learning, and offers opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and high-impact work.

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

• 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).