Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is a leading technology company dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations. The Senior Software Engineer will be part of the Azure Compute team, focusing on ensuring high availability for Azure virtual machines through innovative solutions and collaboration with data scientists.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders spanning across teams and orgs to determine project requirement
• Leads the design and architecture of change management features and services in Azure Compute
• Identifies dependencies and authors design documents for features and services
• Leverages expertise with appropriate stakeholders to develop project plans, release plans, and work items
• Develops high quality, extensible, maintainable code and coaches others to do the same
• Supports livesite as 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
• Collaborates with data scientists and ML engineers to design and integrate predictive models that proactively detect hardware anomalies and trigger live migrations, improving VM uptime and SLA compliance
• Leads initiatives to embed AI-driven diagnostics and root cause analysis into availability services, reducing time-to-resolution for incidents and improving operational efficiency
• Drives the adoption of generative AI tools to automate documentation, incident summaries, and engineering workflows, enhancing team productivity and knowledge sharing
• Partners with platform teams to build intelligent observability pipelines that leverage anomaly detection and trend analysis for early warning systems
• Evaluates and integrates large-scale AI models into control plane services to enable smarter, context-aware repair decisions across millions of Azure VMs

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#, 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
• 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 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 equivalent experience