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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Aug 24, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure Core is Azure's most profitable business and is growing incredibly fast! We provide millions of servers for customers to run their workloads in the cloud. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services with the scale of Azure, Bing, M365, and Azure Storage. Customers use the power of Azure Core to host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and solve large computational problems in seconds. Workloads range from new "born-in-the-cloud" services to traditional applications migrated from physical datacenters.As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Pilotfish team you will be responsible for building services responsible for managing the fleet of servers in Pilotfish. This includes services that provision servers, monitor and diagnose software and hardware issues and support new types of hardware that are customers are demanding. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth in one of the fastest growing businesses. Azure supports flexible work options including working in office, remotely, or a hybrid of both.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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on-call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, and triages service issues to restore service with minimal customer/business impact, and to prevent future occurrences.Ensures that their work meets the quality and compliance standards and requirements for security, privacy, accessibility, and other Microsoft engineering-specific requirements.Contributes to efforts to improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of services and products through the use of telemetry data and other metrics. | |