Job Details
Posted date: Nov 26, 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
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewAzure Core is the foundation of Microsoft’s cloud platform, powering infrastructure that enables global-scale computing. Within Azure, you will help define and validate technologies that deliver computational capabilities for customers worldwide. This work includes contributing to the architecture of new systems, addressing challenges of operating at scale, and optimizing next-generation Azure offerings. You will also gain experience supporting new business models and applications as Microsoft expands its cloud ecosystem.
As a Software Engineer II in Azure Core, you will work on distributed systems to create a compute platform that is highly scalable, resilient, secure, and focused on data consistency. You will collaborate with peers to design and implement solutions that meet demanding availability and performance requirements. Our team values innovation and encourages engineers to deliver creative solutions that provide measurable customer impact.
This role offers opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies, learn from experienced professionals, and contribute to services that operate at massive scale. You will help shape the future of cloud computing while advancing your technical expertise in a dynamic environment.
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.
Responsibilities
Partners with appropriate stakeholders determine user requirements and features for a set of scenarios.Leads the design and building distributed services that are secure, scalable, reliable, and performant.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and resilience, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Operates services in production, meeting a high bar on monitoring, detection, and resolution of issues with live services.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, resilience, efficiency, observability, and performance of cloud services while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
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 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. #azurecorejobs
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.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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