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Posted date: Sep 24, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office - remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Microsoft Azure offers customers a scalable, on-demand infrastructure and platform to build, host, and operate services across a global network of datacenters. At the heart of this ecosystem is the Azure Compute platform, which manages the health and lifecycle of millions of virtual machines, containers, and the underlying host infrastructure.We are part of the PilotFish Core team within Azure Compute, responsible for building distributed, high-scale foundational services that power the core of the Compute platform. Our systems enable other infrastructure components to operate with high performance and scalability. Today, our platform manages over 13 million servers worldwide, serving both first-party and third-party customers.
As a fast-growing Research and Development (R&D) organization, we deliver critical production scenarios while also incubating new ideas. As a Software Engineer II in our team you will gain deep insights into how large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms are architected. You’ll have the opportunity to work end-to-end on features—from prototyping and design to development, testing, and release—while accelerating your career growth through hands-on experience with customer-focused scenarios.
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, foster innovation, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we live our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience. 2+ year(s) of experience with designing and implementing large – scale distributed systems.Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceOR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,OR PythonOR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.1+ years(s) of experience working in distributed systems or cloud computing platforms.1+ year(s) of analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to systems design.Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 3rd, 2025
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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