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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin Microsoft Azure, where we deliver the latest hardware and software platforms to power the future of cloud computing and AI. Our Azure Host Networking team is at the cutting edge, connecting these exciting new hardware platforms at hyper-fast speeds using our world-class Software Defined Networking (SDN) data path. We are looking for a experienced software engineer to ensure our new platforms continue to meet the ever-increasing networking needs of our customers.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in launching product offerings based on new silicon and hardware platforms, ensuring they meet the network performance and reliability expectations of our customers. You will tackle complex issues spanning hardware and software across Microsoft and third-party partners, working collaboratively to resolve them. This role offers the opportunity to enhance your engineering, organizational, and problem-solving skills while becoming a proficient in new hardware technologies, network workloads, performance analysis, and automation. Your work will have a significant impact across many services and offerings, directly contributing to the growth of Azure and AI business.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 proficient 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. | |