Software Engineer II - Remote Eligible

Azure Compute

Join Azure Compute, the engine behind Microsoft’s fastest-growing and most profitable cloud business. Azure Compute powers millions of virtual machines that support enterprise-scale services such as Bing, Skype, and Structured Query Language (SQL), as well as massive multiplayer gaming sessions and high-speed computational workloads. Are you ready to shape the future of cloud computing?

As the backbone of Microsoft’s cloud operating system, the Azure Compute team builds fault-tolerant distributed systems on commodity data center hardware. The goal is to deliver seamless infrastructure where resources appear limitless, elastic, and consistently available. The team is driving innovation across multiple domains, including scaling and density improvements—optimizing cluster scale, virtual machine density, service footprints, and compute core utilization. Efforts also include expanding container capabilities through Docker and Hyper-V Containers, and developing next-generation microservices for compute service management.

The team is also focused on reliability and performance breakthroughs, reimagining how fast and dependable on-demand compute can be. This includes architectural transformations across Azure Compute, host operating systems, networking, and storage. By combining algorithmic enhancements, protocol redesign, and intelligent pre-processing, the team aims to deliver compute instances in seconds. Engineers work across the stack to achieve significant improvements in deployment speed and service quality.

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.