Job Description:
Would you like to be part of a team that delivers rich, scalable, and secure networking capabilities for private and hybrid cloud environments? Our team owns the Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform, a key component of Microsoft’s Hybrid Cloud portfolio. Customers deploy our SDN solutions across private and hybrid cloud environments. We are a collaborative and inclusive team that puts customer needs first. As part of the Windows + Devices organization, you will influence the Windows Server platform that powers critical workloads worldwide. As part of this team, you will work across a broad spectrum of the SDN stack, spanning user and admin experiences, control plane services, and high‑performance networking datapath components. You will drive technical direction and execution within the team, collaborating with internal stakeholders to understand customer and user requirements and translating them into robust, scalable solutions. In this role, you will independently apply appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, design quality, diagnostics, and engineering insight, while taking responsibility for the correctness and quality of AI‑assisted outputs. You will lead architecture discussions by testing design hypotheses, developing complex design specifications, and influencing technical decisions across features and components. You will define and drive clear test strategies to ensure solution quality and prevent regressions, write extensible, maintainable, well‑tested, secure, and performant code, and review code to ensure appropriate test coverage and adherence to standards. You will use debugging tools, tests, logs, and telemetry to validate assumptions, improve observability, and raise the operational readiness of the platform. Security and reliability are first‑class concerns in this role. You will drive secure coding practices, review security risks and compliance considerations during design and code reviews and implement security standards to ensure each layer of the solution is independently secure. You will also proactively drive automation wherever possible. Our SDN solution plays a key role in Azure Arc, enabling customers to build consistent and manageable hybrid cloud environments. This role offers end‑to‑end ownership and influence—from UI and APIs to control plane and datapath—and the opportunity to raise the engineering bar for the team while delivering meaningful customer impact at scale.
