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Posted date: Feb 10, 2026
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewAzure is a global cloud platform that enables individuals and organizations worldwide to achieve more. Alongside its public cloud offerings, Azure supports large-scale Microsoft internal services such as Microsoft Teams, Office, Bing, and Structured Query Language (SQL). Effective capacity management, including workload allocation, access to capacity, and maintenance of capacity buffers, is essential to Azure’s success. To strengthen this area, the team is investing in software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists in Redmond, United States, to advance Azure Core’s platform capacity management and efficiency capabilities.
This role seeks a Software Engineer IC4 to contribute to highly scalable capacity management services and optimized efficiency solutions. The position is part of the Azure Compute Capacity Optimization Team (ACCOT), working on foundational layers of the Azure Control Plane technology stack, including the Azure Allocator and the Holmes service, which manages workload migration across all Azure data centers. The role also includes work on central capacity management services such as Compute Capacity Central (CCC). Responsibilities include collaborating with partner teams, developing independent projects, managing core services that track capacity usage, maintaining capacity buffers, providing capacity telemetry, and building efficient services that allocate and migrate workloads to optimal locations within and across data centers.
In this position, you will collaborate with technical leaders across Azure Core teams and work alongside software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists addressing significant challenges within the Azure Core platform. You will partner with teams across Azure and Microsoft to build services that enhance customer experience and platform efficiency, while driving improvements in availability, scalability, and operability for Azure compute platform capacity and efficiency. The role offers opportunities to work on large-scale distributed systems, contribute to reliable data engineering solutions, engage with a team that values learning and collaboration, and grow through mentorship and impactful project work.
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
Design and develop distributed cloud software services that are engineered for scale, availability, high performance, and high reliability.Own and deliver complete features including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping.Collaborate with partner teams across the world to drive key Azure Core Allocator capabilities.Deliver high quality of service to Azure customers through live-site excellence.
Qualifications
Required 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 PythonOR equivalent experience.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 QualificationsMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 experience leading teams/projects that maintain live services.#azurecorejobs
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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
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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