Senior Software Engineer

Overview
If you're passionate about building resilient, intelligent, and globally distributed systems, join us—we're hiring a
Senior Software Engineer
on the
Azure Traffic Manager
team.

In this role, you'll design and implement cutting-edge traffic routing solutions that ensure high availability, performance, and reliability for some of Microsoft's most critical services—including Office 365, Xbox, Azure, and LinkedIn—as well as for millions of Azure customers worldwide. You'll work on intelligent DNS-based routing, real-time health monitoring, and seamless failover strategies that keep global applications running smoothly.

You'll collaborate closely with teams across Azure Networking and beyond, contributing to a platform that handles billions of DNS queries daily. Expect to write highly performant, observable, and scalable code, and to embrace cross-platform development (Windows/Linux) and multiple languages (C/C++/C#). We also value contributions to and from the Open Source community.

Our mission is to empower customers with
intelligent traffic management at global scale
, enabling them to deliver fast, reliable, and secure digital experiences—no matter where their users are located.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, validate, and release software features to critical production components.
• Maintain scalable services with health monitoring to enable self-healing systems.
• Engage with teammates and partner teams to understand business needs to maximize impact.
• Provide technical, and end-to-end leadership for projects on which you work.
• Innovate and Implement system to enable growth of scalable, critical, and global services.
• Drive our collaborative, inclusive and passionate team culture.

Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:

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

• OR equivalent experience.

• Drive for delivering high quality implementations and designs while also working on testing and operational aspects of the service as well.

• Proficient communication and collaboration skills, including cross-group.

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

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, RUST, C++, C# or Java

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience in designing and running fault tolerant infrastructure services that run globally on a large scale is a plus.

• Experience in any of the following areas is a plus: L7 data plane, distributed control plane, large scale web applications, asynchronous programming models.
• Distributed networking experience is a plus but not mandatory.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about
requesting accommodations.