New 
Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
remote work
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 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 04, 2025 | |
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OverviewAs organizations increasingly adopt cloud computing and migrate mission-critical workloads to Microsoft Azure, the cloud infrastructure and platform must meet growing demands for reliability, performance, and scalability. These evolving requirements present complex challenges that call for innovative solutions and resilient architecture.If you are interested in exploring these challenges and passionate about shaping the future of cloud technologies, this team offers a unique opportunity. Azure Core is the foundation of Microsoft's cloud ecosystem, powering the infrastructure that supports global cloud computing. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Core engineering team, you will collaborate with experienced colleagues to develop cutting-edge technologies, engage directly with customers worldwide, and contribute to the advancement of the cloud industry. This role also offers flexible work arrangements, including partial remote work.The team fosters a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning. You will be encouraged to bring your ideas forward, work across disciplines, and grow your career in a supportive and dynamic environment. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities from strategic customers' perspectives, ensuring alignment with their business goals.Define and plan technology requirements and solutions to address complex end-to-end business and engineering challenges through the lens of Customer Reliability Engineering (CRI).Drive architecture planning, reviews, and development by helping customers define their solution architecture on the Microsoft Azure platform. Lead resolution of issues and gaps across Azure teams and proactively identify feature gaps to ensure customer success.Partner with relevant stakeholders to determine user requirements across multiple scenarios, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout the development lifecycle.Leverage subject-matter expertise across product features to coordinate project plans, release schedules, and work items across multiple teams, resolving customer-facing issues effectively.Take ownership as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentor engineers across support, product, and solution teams, and manage on-call escalations to monitor and mitigate system degradation, downtime, or service interruptions.Continuously seek new knowledge and adapt to emerging trends, technical solutions, and patterns that enhance availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance. Share insights with peers while promoting consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. | |