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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Nov 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure Core is one of Microsoft's fastest-growing businesses, providing millions of servers for customers to run workloads in the cloud. It is a globally available foundational service that hosts large-scale applications such as Azure, Bing, Microsoft 365, and Azure Storage. Customers rely on Azure Core to power scenarios ranging from multiplayer gaming sessions to solving complex computational problems in seconds. Workloads include both cloud-native services and traditional applications migrated from physical datacenters.As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Pilotfish team, you will build services that manage the fleet of servers in Pilotfish. This includes developing solutions for server provisioning, monitoring and diagnosing software and hardware issues, and supporting new hardware types requested by customers. This role offers opportunities to work on large-scale distributed systems and accelerate your career growth in one of Microsoft's most strategic businesses.You will collaborate with teams across Azure to design and deliver reliable, efficient, and scalable services that improve operational performance and enable innovation for customers worldwide.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.
ResponsibilitiesDrives 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.Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. | |