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Posted date: Sep 22, 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: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Join Azure Compute, the engine behind Microsoft’s fastest-growing and most profitable cloud business. Azure Compute powers millions of virtual machines that support enterprise-scale services such as Bing, Skype, and Structured Query Language (SQL), as well as massive multiplayer gaming sessions and high-speed computational workloads. Are you ready to shape the future of cloud computing?As the backbone of Microsoft’s cloud operating system, the Azure Compute team builds fault-tolerant distributed systems on commodity data center hardware. The goal is to deliver seamless infrastructure where resources appear limitless, elastic, and consistently available. The team is driving innovation across multiple domains, including scaling and density improvements—optimizing cluster scale, virtual machine density, service footprints, and compute core utilization. Efforts also include expanding container capabilities through Docker and Hyper-V Containers, and developing next-generation microservices for compute service management.
The team is also focused on reliability and performance breakthroughs, reimagining how fast and dependable on-demand compute can be. This includes architectural transformations across Azure Compute, host operating systems, networking, and storage. By combining algorithmic enhancements, protocol redesign, and intelligent pre-processing, the team aims to deliver compute instances in seconds. Engineers work across the stack to achieve significant improvements in deployment speed and service 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.
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicableContributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimationWorks with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features and contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversightActs 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 problemsA successful candidate will look at the e2e architecture and drive innovations to help improve the experience for our customers working closely with other team members and multiple organizations in AzureRemains 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 Python OR equivalent experience. 2+ years of industry experience in service development, successfully shipping services through multiple releases. 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 Science OR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR 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 Python OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) of experience in customer and partner focus - able to understand their needs through a data driven approach1+ year(s) of experience in ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success1+year(s) of experience in ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long-term needs is essential.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 September 27, 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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