Software Engineer II

Microsoft is seeking a passionate and experienced Software Engineer to join the Azure Compute team's VMScaleSet platform. The role involves building and evolving foundational infrastructure for Azure’s scalable compute offerings, focusing on enabling customers to deploy, manage, and scale thousands of virtual machines with high availability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Leads by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
• 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
• 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#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• 1+ years of experience building, deploying, or operating AI‑powered automation or agents, including use of LLMs, rule‑based systems, or hybrid approaches to automate operational workflows
• 1+ years of experience designing or operating systems with strong reliability, security, or safety guarantees, such as validation layers, guardrails, failure handling, or observability in production environments