Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
United States, Texas, Irving
7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map)
Aug 20, 2025
OverviewAre you excited about driving growth in one of Microsoft's core businesses? Do you want to work on afast-paced team that has a proven track record of delivering industry leading innovations? The Azure Compute Node Services group is looking for a talented senior software engineer to develop reliable and performance critical components that run on every server in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. If you're self-motivated, skilled in software lifecycle management, and have a zeal for quality and fundamentals, then we may have your next career position for you!As a Senior Software Engineer working with us, your mission will be to design, develop and ship features at global scale to meet the continuously evolving customer needs while ensuring that the Microsoft Azure platform is operating with high reliability and availability. We are keenly interested in highly self-motivated engineers with the ability to handle all aspects of the software lifecycle with a deep focus on quality.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.