Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Apr 29, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you interested in large-scale projects in the heart of Azure? Do you excel in distributed computing systems programming and seek big, creative challenges? Are you ready to be a driving force, enabling engineering teams to achieve their best? If yes, we have the ideal role for you in the Azure Core OneDeploy team!At Azure Host Maintenance Platform, we enable the organization to deploy billions of changes across millions of hosts within the Azure fleet every week, leveraging cutting-edge technologies in both software and hardware. Our work accelerates innovation in the Cloud, delivering smart infrastructure platform that serves as a foundation for the entire Azure.We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in crafting and delivering our next-generation Host Maintenance Platform. You will be the technical lead behind our cutting-edge product, working alongside a team of skilled engineers to create a seamless change management platform for Azure's future needs.Be part of a team that invests in new technologies and people for the long term. While we focus on platform design, we ship constantly, adapting to early customer feedback and emphasizing solid, incremental development. Help us shape the future of Azure and make a significant impact in the cloud computing world.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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates 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.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).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) 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. | |