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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Aug 10, 2025 | |
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OverviewDo you like programming in Rust? Are you interested about building scalable systems? Join a collaborative team where your ideas shape the future of technology and your growth is a top priority. The NodeService team is responsible for orchestrating virtual machine (VM) workflows on Microsoft Azure. The software we develop runs on millions of machines worldwide. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance, compliance, and security. As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that run on millions of nodes and collaborate across organizations to meet the scale, elasticity, latency, and reliability demands of our customers. You will have opportunities to explore new technologies and design the next generation of services that adapt to evolving hardware. You will have the freedom to ideate, create, and provide thought leadership-bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices-while growing into a senior technical or organizational leader. 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* 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.* 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. | |