14 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of Azure Compute Fleet capabilities orchestrating Virtual Machine Scale Sets across multiple Azure regions.
- Design distributed control-plane services, APIs, and orchestration workflows for capacity placement, scaling, failover, and lifecycle management.
- Drive adoption of AI and Agentic AI for engineering workflows, operational automation, diagnostics, root-cause analysis, and productivity.
- Partner with Azure Compute, Capacity, Networking, and Platform Services teams on architecture and end-to-end delivery.
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual, participate in on-call rotations, lead live-site mitigation, and improve reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency with one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and other applicable security screening requirements.
- Preferred: master's degree with 6+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 4+ years designing, building, and shipping high-quality system software.
- Preferred: experience building highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems, cloud services, platform infrastructure, control-plane systems, or hyperscale backend services.
- Preferred: experience using AI, machine learning, large language models, or Agentic AI systems to improve productivity, operations, diagnostics, or customer experiences.
Benefits
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.