Software Engineer II - Azure Cloud Native Platform

Microsoft • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Azure Cloud Native Platform org is seeking a passionate and experienced Software Engineer II to join the VMScaleSet (VMSS) platform team. This team is responsible for building and evolving the foundational infrastructure that powers Azure’s scalable compute offerings. You will work on mission-critical systems that enable customers to deploy, manage, and scale thousands of virtual machines with high availability and performance.
As a Software Engineer, you will collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand and define customer and user requirements for a set of features. You will contribute to architecture discussions by providing feedback and identifying dependencies, incorporating them into design documentation with minimal oversight. You will develop and implement code for products, services, or features, leveraging reusable components where applicable. Additionally, you will support feature deployment by following established processes and best practices. Your role includes contributing to efforts that integrate logging and instrumentation for telemetry—covering performance, reliability, usage, and security monitoring for live environments and A/B experiments. You will help ensure compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, applying secure design principles and formal validation of security invariants. Finally, you will work closely with partner teams to ensure seamless integration of features across components before launch, driving high-quality, secure, and reliable solutions.

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 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• OR 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.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ year(s) experience in full life cycle Software Development including:
• Compute orchestration, asynchronous processing, service reliability, and incident management; skilled in debugging large‑scale distributed systems.
• Designing architecture and system components; coding and integrating features; performs testing and debugging; manages deployments using DevOps practices; and collaborates across teams to deliver complete, scalable, secure, and robust API‑driven solutions.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees