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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Oct 12, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you a software engineer who enjoys working on large-scale projects within Azure Core, the foundation of Microsoft's artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer? Do you thrive on solving complex challenges in distributed computing systems and want to be a force multiplier-empowering engineering teams to do their best work? If so, the Azure Compute OneDeploy team offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful infrastructure innovation.The Azure Compute OneDeploy team enables billions of changes to be deployed across millions of hosts in the Microsoft Azure fleet. This is accomplished through a combination of advanced software and hardware technologies. The team's work accelerates innovation across the cloud and delivers scalable infrastructure that benefits the entire company. We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join this team, where you'll collaborate with a talented group committed to long-term investment in both technology and people. Our development approach emphasizes thoughtful platform design, incremental delivery, high quality, and responsiveness to early customer feedback.This role offers the chance to work on systems that directly influence the agility and reliability of Azure deployments. You'll contribute to building smart infrastructure that supports a wide range of services and enables engineers across Microsoft to innovate faster and more safely. If you are passionate about solving technical challenges and making a meaningful impact, we encourage you to explore this opportunity.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 stakeholders (e.g., product managers, designers, back-end developers) to clarify requirements, validate user scenarios, and ensure alignment with business and user goals. Translates product requirements and user needs into easy to use deployment instructions.Develops high-quality, scalable, and maintainable backend-end solutions using C++ and C#. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.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.Mentor junior team members for career growth and technical developments. | |