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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 29, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Azure is at the core of Microsoft's cloud strategy, providing the backend infrastructure for hyper-scale distributed and dynamic computing. Our team within Azure delivers the software platform that enables internal Microsoft services-including Office 365, Bing.com, Xbox Live, Skype, and OneDrive-as well as external customers to run large-scale, mission-critical cloud applications for their businesses.We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help evolve and expand our software platform and infrastructure. Areas of focus include core infrastructure services at ring 0 and ring -1, achieving five nines (99.999%) reliability, fault tolerance, distributed service monitoring, operational efficiency across the datacenter hardware lifecycle, performance metrics collection and analysis, alerting, visualization, device operations, and coordination of node diagnostics and repairs.This role offers the opportunity to work on highly distributed systems at massive scale, impacting strategic areas for Microsoft and the broader industry. You will collaborate with teams across the company to design and deliver robust solutions that define the backbone of Microsoft Cloud.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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign and develop solutions that builds and improve cloud services running over distributed system.Provide new features for Microsoft Cloud internal infrastructure software.Keep infrastructure services running and deliver code updates on a regular cadence to improve performance and reliability.Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for scenarios.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. | |