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Posted date: Feb 25, 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
OverviewThe Azure Compute Fleet team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and operate the systems that enable customers to acquire and run massive amounts of compute capacity with speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Azure Compute Fleet allows customers to express high‑level intent—such as capacity needs, pricing preferences, and workload flexibility—while Azure automatically orchestrates the selection, placement, and lifecycle management of heterogeneous compute resources at global scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will work on mission‑critical, distributed control plane services that operate under extreme scale, high concurrency, and continuous change. The systems you build will directly affect how quickly customers can access compute, how efficiently Azure utilizes global capacity, and how reliably large‑scale workloads run in the face of failures and constant change. You will take ownership of complex features, influence architectural decisions, and help evolve the platform to support Azure’s fastest‑growing workload types, including batch processing, data analytics, CI/CD pipelines, and large‑scale elastic compute scenarios.
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
Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend services that manage large compute fleets across Azure regions, availability zones, and pricing models.Own complex, cross‑cutting features end‑to‑end, from early design and implementation through production rollout and live‑site operations.Design systems that safely handle large‑scale provisioning, continuous VM churn, partial failures, retries, and idempotent operations.Collaborate with partner teams across Azure Compute, VM Scale Sets, capacity management, placement, billing, and reliability engineering.Drive architectural improvements that increase platform scalability, availability, correctness, and operational efficiency.Build strong telemetry, diagnostics, and automation to ensure services are observable, debuggable, and resilient in production.Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance, contributing to a culture of engineering 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 Qualifications:Master'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 PythonOR equivalent experience.Experience in incident management, debugging large-scale distributed systems, and collaborating across teams to align on complex technical issues.Experience with Microsoft Azure Software Development Kits (SDKs) and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), along with a deep understanding of compute orchestration, asynchronous operations, and service reliability.#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.