New 
SOFTWARE ENGINEER II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin 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.
ResponsibilitiesCreates 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. | |