Software Engineer II

Microsoft

5d

About The Position

The Azure Compute team serves as the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Operating System (OS), building fault‑tolerant distributed systems on commodity datacenter hardware. The team’s mission is to provide seamless infrastructure where resources appear limitless, elastic, and consistently available. The work spans multiple domains, ensuring that contributions influence the entire technology stack.
The team focuses on scaling and density innovations by advancing cluster scale and virtual machine (VM) density. This includes optimizing service footprints, reducing fragmentation, and increasing compute core utilization. The team is also expanding Azure container capabilities, including Docker and Hyper‑V (Hypervisor) containers, while developing next‑generation microservices for compute service management.
Another core area is reliability and performance, where the team is reimagining the speed and dependability of on‑demand compute. This involves architectural transformations across Azure Compute, Host Operating System (OS), Networking, Storage, and related components. The goal is to achieve significantly faster deployment speeds through algorithmic improvements, protocol redesign, and intelligent pre-processing, enabling compute instances to be delivered within seconds. The team works across the full stack to drive substantial improvements and seeks individuals with strong technical depth who enjoy solving complex problems and collaborating across disciplines.
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.

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.
• 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 Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• The ability to multi-task while balancing short-term and long-term needs is essential.
• Ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success
• Strong design and development experience with C#/Java/C/C++/ and systems programming.

Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level