Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Azure Chaos Studio is one of the core products our team builds, an engineering platform that enables controlled experimentation and fault injection across Azure and Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. With Azure Chaos Studio, engineers can intentionally introduce real‑world failure conditions such as network latency, resource throttling, and service outages. These controlled experiments help teams validate system resilience, uncover hidden issues before they impact customers, and strengthen the reliability and availability of cloud services at scale. By driving a disciplined approach to chaos engineering, our team empowers product teams across Microsoft to build more robust and dependable systems.

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross team stakeholders to capture user requirements, incorporate insights into future designs.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and develop proposals independently.
• Deliver high quality system design that meets service reliability, performance, scalability requirements.
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Use debugging tools and methodologies proactively and reactively to ensure product robustness.
• Maintain operational integrity of live services on a rotational, on-call basis. Act as a DRI for system monitoring and issue resolution.
• Develop internal tools to streamline product creation and evaluate current methods applicability.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
  

Other Requirements

• 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.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
• OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL/NoSQL technologies and principles of high availability database design.
• Troubleshooting skills with a track record of working on service-oriented products.
• Awareness of agile software development methods and best practices, including delivering software features in phases.
• 3+ years of software development experience in building low latency high throughput highly reliable services.
• Experience in developing large-scale distributed systems utilizing cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS.
• Proficient in distributed system management with solid architectural and technical system design skills.
  

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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