Senior Software Engineer

Are you interested in working on large-scale projects at the core of Microsoft Azure? Do you have experience in distributed computing systems programming and enjoy solving complex challenges? Are you ready to help engineering teams deliver their best work? If so, the Azure Core Compute team may be the right place for you. Azure Core Compute is one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses, focused on making Azure the world’s computer that powers customer workloads. The team is responsible for general-purpose compute offerings and control plane management across host nodes, virtual machines (VMs), containers, and bare metal systems, while exploring advanced technologies such as confidential computing, hardware offloads, and disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, we aim to deliver industry-leading availability, reliability, performance consistency at scale, compliance, and security. As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will build features that manage millions of machines and collaborate across organizations to meet security, scalability, elasticity, latency, and reliability requirements. You will have opportunities to learn new technologies, design future services that adapt to hardware evolution, and contribute innovative ideas to improve products and engineering practices. This role offers significant growth potential, including opportunities to advance into senior technical leadership positions.