The Azure Compute team builds a fault-tolerant, distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware to deliver infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual machines (VMs). The team creates the illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available. This role is in the Availability Platform team within Azure Compute, which focuses on ensuring every Azure VM achieves an SLA of 99.99+%. Achieving and exceeding this target requires out-of-the-box thinking, backed by sound data-driven decisions and intelligent automation. The team owns services that monitor the health of millions of Azure machines and the control plane services that make all repair decisions in Azure. We leverage AI and machine learning to build predictive failure models that proactively live-migrate VMs before failures occur, minimizing customer impact and improving platform resilience. We are also exploring the use of generative AI to enhance diagnostics, automate root cause analysis, and accelerate incident resolution.
Requirements
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 2+ years of experience designing algorithms and data structures.
- 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Responsibilities
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, 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.
- Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants.
- Drives product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises.
- Works with partner teams to ensure a project/sub-system of a product works well with the components of the partner team, ensuring proper end-to-end testing, live-site coverage, scalability, performance, and DRI escalation pathways are established before going live.
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
Other
- 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.
- Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 9, 2025.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
- Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
