Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. The **Azure Core** team builds and manages the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate and shape the world’s computers, and we encourage you to apply and learn more! We are looking for talented a **Senior Software Engineer** to help us deliver highly scalable services and world-class product experiences. We value people who can bring a diverse perspective to our products and where a developer will not just write code but will have a real meaningful impact on the direction of the products and which features to build. 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, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services. + Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions. + Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis. + Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better. + Pair and participate in code reviews with other engineers in your team. **Qualifications** **Required 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + Experience developing production software​. + Experience with one or more OOP languages including but not limited to: C#, Java, C/C++,  Python. + System design, algorithmic skills, knowledge of data structures​. + Solid debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills  + Experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems **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 / Preferred Qualifications:** + General database knowledge and experience of working with data at high scale + Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers + Knowledge of Azure Cloud, Power Platform, or Dynamics 365​ \#Azurecorejobs 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) .