Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 24, 2025 | |
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OverviewImagine building the world's computer that provides unprecedented reliability and unlimited scale-an organization that empowers individuals to achieve their best and values grassroots innovation. Envision technology that spans machine learning, networking, operating systems, user experience, security, and solutions that enable millions of customers to run their mission-critical workloads with confidence. The opportunities are infinite, and innovation is limited only by our own imagination. We are part of the Microsoft Azure Networking team, responsible for designing, building, and operating critical services for customers. Our responsibilities include enabling hybrid connectivity for enterprises to connect to Azure, application load balancing, secure virtual machine access, network function virtualization, application and network security services, and the Network Diagnostics Platform. At the core of these services is a robust software-defined networking and network function virtualization infrastructure that we continuously innovate on to improve agility, scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Our culture promotes diversity and inclusion, which is clearly reflected in everything we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us-it is the foundation of our work. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Production Infrastructure team. This role will focus on pre-production testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery rollouts, and planet-scale health monitoring of hundreds of thousands of networking platform-as-a-service offerings. The mission of the team is to deliver high-quality networking services with the agility of the cloud. This position blends the disciplines of reliability, quality, and scalability into a single impactful role. If you're an engineer who takes pride in delivering high-quality services, enjoys building scalable and reliable systems, and thrives in collaborative, fast-paced environments, this is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds who are passionate about technology and eager to contribute to a supportive, startup-like culture where innovation and impact go hand in hand. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates 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).Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.Other:Embody our Culture and Values | |