Interruption Management Services monitors CPU utilization, performance, and consistency across the Azure fleet, collecting raw telemetry locally and aggregating it for the fleetwide analysis, discovering trends and anomalies. The results are used to help validate new Azure technologies, investigate customer problems, and drive up the fleet operation quality. Azure Profiler service enables customers to improve performance and reduce bottlenecks in their services by analyzing and providing valuable insights into CPU utilization and intuitive ways to explore massive trove of data from millions of guest VMs, host systems including Azure Boost.

Our team’s work requires combination of understanding low-level hardware and systems operation with building a global petabyte-scale data processing service, data analysis skills and wide enough technical expertise for efficient cooperation with multiple complex ongoing internal Azure technology projects.

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer II to join this team. While this position covers mostly the low-level side (coding for the Azure host server, collecting telemetry, creating simulations, performance optimization, debugging, etc.), every team member has to understand the whole picture, providing great learning opportunities.

Azure Edge + Platform brings together platforms, devices, and services to deliver solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems.

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

• Design, conduct, and analyze the results of performance testing (with a focus on CPU performance) on various Azure hardware configurations using both internal and open-source tools.

• Learn and understand the latest developments in the Azure platform at a deep technical level, working with various teams and technical leaders on evaluating and mitigating the performance impact of new Azure platform changes and technologies.

• Lead cross-team efforts to improve performance and reliability across Azure.

• Investigate and root cause customer performance issues due to the Azure platform.

• Work with various Azure platform teams to debug issues and understand and improve telemetry and debugging tools.

• Ability to handle occasional live service on-call responsibilities.

• Improve our team’s data analysis services and pipelines with new capabilities, better analysis, and improved reliability

Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ years of experience in system software and operating system internals e.g., scheduling, interrupts, threading, memory management, etc.

• 2+ Years of experience in design, development, debugging, testing and problem-solving.

Other Requirements:

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. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Additional experience in system software and operating system internals e.g., scheduling, interrupts, threading, memory management, etc.

• Experience with hypervisor internals (i.e. Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, Xen, etc.) and virtualization concepts and technologies

• Experience with performance testing and benchmarking

• Experience with agile project management methodologies.

• Experience with git or Azure DevOps, and Continuous Integration/Delivery principles and pipelines.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300- $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 21, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .