Host - Az Compute - Software Engineer II

Overview

Azure Core is one of Azure’s most rapidly growing businesses, delivering a cloud platform designed to run a wide range of workloads. The Azure Core India Development Center (IDC) team builds the infrastructure that supports major Microsoft services such as Teams, Bing, Exchange, Xbox, Structured Query Language (SQL) Azure, Office 365, HDInsight, and Cosmos Database (Cosmos DB), as well as global customers across industries including retail, finance, logistics, gaming, and data analytics. These services and organizations rely on the infrastructure developed by the team to operate securely and efficiently at cloud scale.

As platform owners supporting diverse workloads, the team is responsible for meeting customer service level agreements (SLAs) and ensuring high standards for availability, reliability, performance, capacity, and efficiency. Customers expect high availability, seamless maintenance, workload resiliency despite hardware and system failures, and the ability to deploy and scale large numbers of virtual machines (VMs) and containers reliably. Meeting these expectations requires intelligent resource management, including oversubscription strategies, optimal workload placement, and low‑latency monitoring systems. Teams such as Azure Live Migration within the India Development Center (IDC) contribute to customer impact across availability, capacity, and efficiency pillars.

Delivering customer SLAs at scale requires designing and building systems across all layers of the Azure Core stack. This includes advancing the platform to support evolving workload demands, improving operational efficiency, and ensuring that the infrastructure remains resilient and adaptable for customers and services worldwide.

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

• Contribute towards building the Azure Core Compute platform enabling it to be a trustworthy cloud for customers.
• Building world class systems and services that drive innovation in meeting Availability, Capacity and Efficiency goals for cloud infrastructure, by using intelligent and data driven mechanisms.
• Works in collaboration with teams across a single organization to design, develop and operate reliable, scalable, and high-performance cloud services.
• Partners with engineering and Program Management teams to understand customer, business, and technical requirements to provide feedback to Azure Engineering.
• 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.
• Drive continuous improvement on service quality and cogs efficiency
• 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.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++?
• Linux operating systems 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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Bachelors 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.
  

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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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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