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The Azure Networking Team is growing, and we’re looking for a highly motivated, result-driven engineer with deep software development expertise and a strategic mindset to help define the future of Microsoft’s Edge networks. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex, large-scale challenges and bring a customer-first approach to designing resilient, intelligent systems powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our vision is to fully automate Azure Edge Networks, creating a self-growing, self-healing infrastructure that supports all Microsoft Cloud Services. As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will: Design and deliver scalable software and network solutions that drive autonomy across our Edge infrastructure, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and related services. Lead cross-functional collaboration with partner teams across the Azure Networking organization to ensure alignment in design, implementation, and operational excellence. Own end-to-end delivery of critical networking components—from design and development to deployment, monitoring, and automation. Promote engineering best practices across the team, fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
Job Responsibility:
Collaborates 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 system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Strong hands‑on experience with networking routing protocols, including BGP and IS‑IS, in large‑scale or production environments
Hands‑on experience with network automation, using Python, to build, operate, or improve scalable networking systems