Principal Software Engineer

Are you energized by the opportunity to build systems that operate at cloud scale? Do you enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies and solving complex challenges? We are seeking software engineers who are passionate about advancing cloud infrastructure. Join our dynamic team at Azure Core Compute and be at the forefront of building the next generation cloud that will redefine how businesses scale, collaborate, and thrive. We are on the mission to make Azure the world’s computer powering all customer workloads! The Azure Core Compute host team is responsible for customer-facing compute offerings and management across virtual machines (VMs), containers, bare metal as well as exploring forward-looking host technologies including evolving the host OS, utilizing hardware offloads and leveraging disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance consistency at scale, compliance and security. As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that run on millions of nodes, work across organizations to meet the scale, elasticity, latency and reliability demands of our customers. You will have opportunities to learn new technologies and design the next version of services adapting to hardware evolution. You will have the freedom to ideate, create and provide thought leadership in bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices and grow. Whether you are optimizing compute performance or enabling new capabilities, your work will help drive meaningful improvements across Microsoft Azure.