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Lead manufacturing test strategies and development for complex hardware systems including GPUs and CPUs, integrating AI-driven analytics and collaborating across engineering teams to ensure quality and efficiency. | Requires 8+ years of hardware manufacturing test engineering experience with advanced skills in test development, diagnostics, Linux, programming, and leadership in hyperscale or OEM environments. | Overview Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and deliver trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow, the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight, and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Manufacturing Test Lead to join our team. Join us in this exciting AI revolution. Be part of the infrastructure engineering taskforce to fuel this world changing mission. #azurehwjobs #HIFE #AHSI #CHIE Responsibilities • Define and lead end-to-end manufacturing test strategies for PCBAs, storage enclosures, and rack-level systems. • Leads the development of test hardware, software, and firmware to validate the functionality of complex systems including GPUs, CPUs, and liquid-cooled platforms, ensuring alignment with product design and performance goals. • Develop test plans and validation metrics for GPU-based platforms (e.g., NVIDIA HGX, GB200), covering bring-up, functional, performance, and stress diagnostics. • Integrate AI/ML models to dynamically adjust test coverage based on historical data, product complexity, and risk profiles. • Implement AI-driven anomaly detection systems to flag test escapes and reduce false positives in real time. • Designs and delivers end-to-end test solutions, particularly for advanced liquid cooling technologies, addressing both macro and micro-level thermal transfer challenges (e.g., fluids, pumps, manifolds, connectors). • Collaborates across multidisciplinary teams-mechanical, electrical, process, and production engineering-to integrate test strategies early in the product lifecycle and ensure seamless execution during manufacturing. • Defines and maintains test architecture and core test content, including reusable scripts and test cases, for both blade-level and rack-level systems, ensuring scalability and consistency across product lines. • Monitors production yield and test data, identifies systemic issues, and drives root cause analysis and corrective actions to improve test coverage, product quality, and manufacturing efficiency. • Assesses manufacturing test readiness before each NPI (New Product Introduction) build, conducting risk assessments and coordinating mitigation plans with internal and external stakeholders. • Initiates early engagement in design phases to identify test coverage gaps, develop new test materials, and establish successful metrics to ensure quality and reliability from prototype to production. • Ensures comprehensive documentation and verification coverage across all product stages, mapping test cases to customer impact and business value, including coverage ROI and cost rationalization. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing test system data, eliminating non-value-added processes, and enhancing test effectiveness and efficiency. • Engages with CM/ODM partners to understand production capabilities and limitations, ensuring supply chain alignment and consistent delivery of high-quality products. • Leverage predictive analytics and machine learning to forecast failure trends and proactively mitigate risks. • Evaluate AI readiness of supplier test systems and drive adoption of intelligent test solutions across the ecosystem. • Collaborate with data science teams to develop AI tools that support test optimization and decision-making. Qualifications Required Qualifications: • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering (Hardware) or related field AND 3+ years of enterprise computer, consumer electronics design or hyperscale supply chain systems experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering (Hardware) or related field AND 4+ years of enterprise computer, consumer electronics design or hyperscale supply chain systems experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering (Hardware) or related field AND 8+ years enterprise computer, consumer electronics design or hyperscale supply chain systems experience OR equivalent experience. 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. Preferred Qualifications: • 10+ years of experience in manufacturing test engineering for compute and hyperscale platforms (e.g., servers, storage, GPUs), with deep expertise in test development and deployment at the building block, server, and rack levels. • 3+ years of experience working with data center cooling infrastructure or advanced thermal management solutions, including liquid cooling technologies. • 3+ years of experience developing diagnostic tools or utilities for electronic systems in high-volume or contract manufacturing environments. • Demonstrated success leading test tool development projects (CPU/GPU) from concept through deployment, including integration into manufacturing test flows. • Proficient in Linux-based environments, including scripting, command-line operations, and troubleshooting test systems and storage enclosures. • Analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary technical teams. • 2+ years of hands-on experience in data center or test lab environments. • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, and to support off-hours work as required. • Experience in hyperscale or OEM manufacturing environments (e.g., Microsoft Azure, AWS, or similar). • Familiarity with hardware diagnostics and test methodologies, including PCIe/NVLink, NVIDIA NVML APIs, sensor telemetry, and stress testing for memory, CPU, and GPU components. • Knowledge of rack-level test automation frameworks, including barcode scanning, firmware flashing, and test sequencing. • Proficient in telemetry and monitoring systems such as Prometheus and Grafana for real-time test data visualization. • Solid understanding of PCBA and enclosure-level design and manufacturing processes. • Hands-on experience with software development in languages such as Python, SQL, C#, C++, or Rust. • Familiarity with firmware/BIOS development and driver integration for Linux or Windows platforms. • Experience with modern software development workflows and version control tools (e.g., Git). • Direct experience integrating CPU/GPU test tools into high-volume manufacturing test flows. • Proficient in Linux OS, including scripting and command-line operations. • Experience with Azure DevOps Services, Power BI, or Power Automate is a plus. • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications for documentation and reporting. • Ability to navigate ambiguity, translate complex concepts into practical processes, and drive implementation across cross-functional teams. Manufacturing Test Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 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.

Lead technical sales engagements for Azure Cloud & AI Apps, advise C-suite customers, remove technical roadblocks, develop solution accelerators, and influence product engineering and adoption. | Senior technical leader with 7+ years in technical pre-sales or consulting, expertise in cloud and AI apps, strong customer-facing skills, and experience influencing enterprise sales and technical decisions. | Microsoft's Commercial Solution Area (CSA) sets the sales strategy, leads technical sales, and operations as a hub for the Commercial Solution Areas and Support Services that power the Microsoft Cloud. As an Azure Global Black Belt (GBB) Cloud & AI Apps Principal Solution Engineer, you are a senior technical leader with deep technical expertise within our enterprise sales organization, working with our most important customers. You will own securing the technical decision to help customers realize the AI and digital transformation through cloud computing. You will proactively identify and remove technical roadblocks to accelerate customer progress and solution adoption. You'll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI Transformation and scaling AI application and agent developmentthrough Azure AI Foundry and the full Microsoft Application Platform - including Azure App Services, Containers, Azure Kubernetes Service, Developer Tools, and GitHub, able to identify projects, develop and share repeatable IPs (e.g., reference architectures, solution accelerators) to drive business and technical decisions. You will build and maintain relationships with customers, influence long-term strategic direction and act as a trusted advisor, driving engagement at the CXO level with technology decision makers. 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: • Complex Deals Support: Engage deeply with customers to understand their complex technical needs and challenges and ensure that solutions meet their requirements and accelerate pipeline. • Be an expert on Cloud & AI Apps and Agents technologies • Expert on full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET) • Expert for AI & ML models (e.g., Agentic AI framework, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing, etc.) • Advising C-Suite in Customers: Develop and maintain a robust relationship with technical executives in top customers (e.g., CIO, CISO, CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Development), gaining their mindshare and trust in Azure platform. • Remove Customer and Product Technical Roadblocks: Identify and resolve technical roadblocks that may hinder customer progress, enabling the account team to accelerate the pipeline and convert deals. When product-related issues arise, engage engineering through the go to market team to clarify and address them. Continue supporting both the customer and the account team throughout the resolution process. • Win Over Competitors & Secure Technical Decisions: Deep technical compete expert on the assigned specialization area against major Public Cloud Hyper Scalers competitors by removing technical roadblocks and leading w/MSFT product differentiators to demonstrate superior technical solutions. Build win back or surround competitive strategies, aligned with the customer's goals and objectives. Embed security by design across identity, data, infra, and app layers, mapping to compliance frameworks. • Incubation to Mainstream:Identify tech scenarios and leverage/build packageable solution accelerators, reference architectures, demos, and automation frameworks to bring additional value across customers and regions. • Engineering Feedback Loop: Working with Go to market team on outbound motionthrough product capabilities and creating incubation execution plan and inbound motion through customer feedback on product capabilities to influence engineering product planning, roadmap, and development. • Knowledge Transfer to Technical Roles:Work with enablement team as Subject matter expert (SME) and as a scale mechanism to skill local field solution engineers (SE) and SE managers through structured knowledge sharing, including technical briefings and readiness sessions. • Thought Leadership: Be aleading expert within your area of specialization not limited to Microsoft products by speaking engagements, publishing blogs, videos, and walkthroughs that showcase innovative customer solutions, technical patterns IP, and best practices that drive scalable adoption. • Other: Embo dy our culture and values Qualifications: Required Qualifications: • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience • OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience • OR equivalent experience. • 4+ years experience leading the sales of large cloud engagements, especially those involving Cloud & AI Apps and Agents projects to large/global enterprise customers • Experience leading technical engagements (e.g., Hackathons, Proof of Concepts, Minimum Viable Product) that drive production-scale outcomes Other Qualifications: • Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties. Preferred Qualifications: • 8+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience • OR equivalent experience. • 6+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management. • Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines (e.g., Office 365, Power BI, Azure Architect and Development exams, Cloud Platform Technologies, Information Security, Architecture). • Experience selling to senior technical decision makers by aligning & reinforcing the business value and cost savings of the solution to the customer's overall business pain and/or strategic opportunities and decision criteria. • Experience orchestrating and influencing virtual sales/technical/support/partner teams to pursue sales opportunities and lead v-teams through influence. • Proficient on Agentic framework, AI Management & Security (e.g., Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestrator, monitoring). • Skilled with 1 or more frameworks, tools, languages (e.g., GitHub, Copilot Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools) • Understanding of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform, or other public cloud platforms, including IaaS and PaaS technologies and how they translate into business impact. Versed in Cloud & AI Apps and Agents. • Knowledge of enterprise software solutions and cloud and AI Apps and Agents competitor landscape including AWS and Google Cloud Platform. • Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs. Solution Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 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 $165,600 - $272,300 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 20, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Lead AI transformation engagements and technical win strategies for Dynamics 365 Sales, Service, and Power Platform solutions with nonprofit customers, including demos, POCs, and technical workshops. | 3+ years technical pre-sales or consulting experience with Dynamics 365 Sales & Service and Power Platform, relevant certifications, and ability to engage C-suite and technical decision makers. | Microsoft Elevate is a global initiative designed to empower mission-driven organizations and individuals to thrive in the AI-powered economy. Launched this year, Elevate consolidates and expands upon the work of Microsoft Philanthropies and the Tech for Social Impact team, bringing together technology support, donations, sales, and skilling programs for schools, community colleges, nonprofits, and underserved communities. At its core, Elevate is about putting people first-ensuring that artificial intelligence enhances human potential rather than replacing it. Our purpose is to empower Nonprofit organizations to transform the way they work by harnessing the full potential of artificial intelligence. We guide customers through the evolving digital landscape, enabling them to unlock new opportunities, enhance productivity, and deliver exceptional experiences. By integrating advanced AI capabilities across devices, cloud platforms, and everyday business applications, we help organizations realize seamless, innovative, and secure solutions that drive sustained growth and success in the AI era. In this role you will be the AI Business Process (formally Business Applications) Dynamics 365 Sales, Service and Power Platform Solution Engineer (SE) within the Elevate commercial sales organization working specifically with our Nonprofit managed customers. As an AI Business Process Dynamics 365 Sales, Service and Power Platform Solution Engineer (SE), you will own the technical win strategy and lead AI transformation engagements with Sales, Service and Power Platform domain expertise. You will support AI Business Process Solution Specialists by engaging with and forming relationships with C-Suite executives, Business Decision Makers (BDMs), and Technical Decision Makers (TDMs) like CIO, CTO, and IT Leaders to help them achieve their goals for product proficiency, roadmap, and compete discussions to secure technical decisions. You will orchestrate and execute POCs, envision workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and conduct technical demonstrations to showcase the business value of D365 Sales, D365 Customer Service, D365 Contact Center, D365 Field Service, Copilot Studio, Power Apps and LOB AI Agents offerings. In this role, you will be responsible for increasing Sales, Service and Power Platform revenues by generating new pipeline creation, increased deal velocity and competitive share capture by supporting Sales Specialists in addressing technical proof needs. You are responsible for designing the solution and delivering an industry-aligned demonstration to the customer. You will engage partners for co-sell to scale technical engagements-such as demos, whiteboarding sessions, and POCs, engineering to assist with emerging technologies and Customer Success Unit for deal support. The demo will focus on solving the technical proof requirements while highlighting our business value and competitive differentiators and should result in securing the customer's solution design endorsement. 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: • Own the technical win strategyfor each opportunity. Engage with Business Decision Makers (BDMs) and Technical Decision Makers (TDMs) to translate their priorities and goals to solution vision by addressing business challenges, prioritized with business value and by leveraging deepDynamics 365 Sales & Service applications (Sales, Customer Service, Contact Center, Field Service, Customer Insights, and LOB AI Agents), Copilot Studio and the Power Platform expertise to secure technical decision. • Orchestrate customerenvisioning workshops, whiteboard design sessions, and compelling technical demos across Dynamics 365 Sales & Service applications (Sales, Customer Service, Contact Center, Field Service, Customer Insights), Copilot Studio, the Power Platform and AI Agents. • Lead proof-of-Concept engagementsfor high-priority scenarios, documenting POC outcomes and mapping customer solution requirements. Translate these findings into detailed technical plans - including migration pathways to D365, recommended migration tools - with clear milestones and risk mitigation strategies, captured in aTechnical Close Planfor seamless hand-off to SI partners. • Showcase Microsoft's unique valuein AI-powered business process D365 and Power Platform solutions to win technical decisions against major competitors (e.g. Salesforce, Oracle, IFS, ServiceNow, Amazon Connect). • Anticipate and address technical blockers - such as AI-related compliance, privacy, or security concerns - early in the sales process, developing mitigation plans that instill confidence in D365 & Power Platform solutions. • Drive proof-based differentiation (architecture design sessions, pilot deployments) to highlight how Dynamics 365 meets customer needs better than the competition, ultimatelyimproving win ratesand displacing incumbent solutions. • Leverage theMicrosoft partner ecosystemto enhance and scale solution delivery from early stages to assist with complex demos, POCs, and solution builds, ensuring their industry or domain expertise complements the sales strategy.Orchestrate co-sellingand co-innovation with partners (including FastTrack, and ISV providers). • Work closely with the Customer Success Unit (CSU) and deployment teams to ensure customers realize value from their Dynamics 365 and Power Platform investments.Secure a clear deployment planfor every deal, including agreed success metrics and adoption milestones. Drive early adoption of high-value,consumption-based featureslike Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365 AI Agents by capturing usage intent during pre-sales and incorporating it into the Technical Close Plan. • Commit to ongoing professional development to maintainexpert-level product knowledgeand strategic sales skills. Complete 100% of required training and certifications by the designated deadlines, demonstrating a willingness to grow and adapt with Microsoft's innovations. • Achieve at leastLevel 200 proficiency in consultative sellingapproaches andLevel 400 mastery of Dynamics 365 & Power Platform solutions for key workloads (Sales, Service, Field Service, Copilot Studio, Power Apps etc.), enabling you to fluently bridge executive business discussions and deep technical dialogues. • Proactively share your insights from wins/losses with broader SE community to scale practices and learnings. • Acts as a technical thought leader by sharing practices (e.g., architecture deep dives) and regularly delivering content at readiness events (e.g., Field Advisory Board, Community Calls). Provides insight into how to identify and win opportunities to increase D365 solutions understanding and capabilities. Qualifications: Required/minimum qualifications • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience • OR equivalent experience. • Experience with Sales & Service Dynamics 365 solutions like Sales, Customer Service, Contact Center, Customer Insights, Field Service, D365 LOB AI Agents and Low Code offerings like Copilot Studio and Power Apps • Experience with commercial cloud offerings, ideally including Microsoft's Dynamics 365 offerings, including competitors and related ecosystems. • Certifications in D365 and Power Platform relevant technologies or disciplines (MB-280 Customer Experience Analyst, MB-230 Customer Service Functional Consultant, MB-240 Field Service Functional Consultant, PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant) Additional or preferred qualifications • Solution pre-sales for business applications and/or SaaS-based company or similar technology. • Solution pre-sales of complex business application deals requiring orchestration of large, dispersed, virtual teams composed of industry and solution team members. • Solutions pre-sales practices including but not limited to; discovery, building and crafting solution strategies that differentiate from the competition, value-based selling, identifying, and expanding product opportunities • 4+ years solution or services sales experience or 2 to 3 years of experience selling software-as-a-service, cloud-based solutions to large accounts and exceeding sales targets Solution Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 10, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #CELA

Lead software engineering efforts to support Azure's global expansion by developing data-driven tools and operating models, collaborating across teams, and managing people. | Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4+ years software development experience including coding in C#, .NET, SQL, REST, SPA frameworks, distributed systems, plus 1+ year people management experience and ability to pass security screening. | To support customers in a cloud-first environment, Microsoft Azure continues to expand its regional and zonal presence globally with a focus on trust and reliability. Azure delivers highly available cloud services with advanced features and innovative functionality across its regions. As the cloud market grows increasingly competitive, it is essential for Azure to reach customers quickly and with high quality. Strengthening Azure buildout investments will accelerate its global footprint and ensure seamless operation of Azure services in new region architectures and types. Timely and strategic expansion, guided by data-driven analysis, allows Azure to grow intelligently while upholding Microsoft's enterprise commitments. A broader Azure presence empowers customers to choose Azure as their cloud provider with confidence, knowing they are supported by a secure and consistent infrastructure. As a Software Engineer Manager, this is an opportunity to join the Azure Global Engineering team and contribute to meaningful global impact. As part of the Expansion team, you will use data and tooling to drive new market entry and develop operating models that support Azure's growth into new countries, government sectors, financial services, and other regulated industries. 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: • Experience as a Full Stack developer • Experience with Data, Coding , Design and Test skills. • Experience about leveraging Data to build & analyze Business Insights that takes business forward . • Expereince with cross group collaboration, negotiation and effective communication skills. • Other Embody our culture and values Qualifications: Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python • OR equivalent experience. • 4+ year(s) of experience in Software development, Testing and Technical design skills. • 4 + year(s) working with or developing software for distributed systems and scalable cloud environments, and familiarity with client/server API designs. • 4+ years of experience in Coding and Debugging skills in C#, .Net Framework, SQL, REST, SPA Frameworks - Angular, React. • 1+ year(s) people management experience. 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. Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science • OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, • OR Python • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python • OR equivalent experience. • 1+ year(s) expereince with Azure, .NET, .NET Framework, Security • 4+ year(s) experience working cross team, collaborating with others, prioritizing tasks, and working independently. • Ability to work and communicate effectively across disciplines and teams. Software Engineering M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 10, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azurecorejobs

Develop and maintain software for network switches including hardware/software design, coding, and operational monitoring. | Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 2+ years coding experience in C/C++/Rust/Python and 1+ year hardware or embedded system development experience. | The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) team owns all the software that is running on the switches and routers. As a Software Engineer II, you will be solving many interesting problems, such as supporting new generation switches ranging from 400G/800G/1600G. Opportunity to work on the latest transceiver technologies like Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO), and Linear Receive Optics (LRO). The team works on all the stages of network switches, from defining new switch requirements, to hardware/software design, getting the latest Linux kernel for our switch platforms and supporting them in operations. The team is also building vibrant open-source community for the switch software, which is adopted by various other cloud providers. 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: • Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. • Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. • Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. • Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation. • Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. • Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Qualifications: Required 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++, Rust, or Python • OR equivalent experience. • 1+ year of hardware OR embedded system development experience. 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. Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science • OR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python • OR Master'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++, Rust, or Python • OR equivalent experience. Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 03, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azurecorejobs

Lead cloud and AI data solution architecture for federal customers, ensuring secure, scalable, and optimized deployments while driving customer adoption and partner collaboration. | Senior-level cloud architecture experience with security clearance, strong AI/ML and big data platform knowledge, customer-facing consulting skills, and relevant cloud certifications. | Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Cloud & AI Data to join our Federal organization. The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources - including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment - Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community. Responsibilities: Business Impact Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals. Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively helps the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guides customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content. Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition for supported platforms to empower cloud success, foster and strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Actively listens to and respectfully challenges customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Identifies, and evaluates industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps existing architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model. Proactively identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption. Applies business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints. Customer Centricity Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems. Identifies patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries and leverages them to develop strategic and actionable insights. Presents business cases to program managers to influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate. Identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, and explains why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings. Proactively helps the customer/partner adopt and use Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Builds relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Independently interacts as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required. Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Defines customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals. Anticipates and addresses customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, and executes strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation. Partner Specialization Identifies and prioritizes several opportunities that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners. Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support. Understands solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) business stakeholders to lead and execute initiatives to translate opportunities into actions. Proactively guides and supports partners in developing repeatable offerings, practices, products, and solutions. Advises the partner throughout initial strategic customer implementations. Technical Leadership Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices. Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, IP (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Contributes to the development and modification of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level. Contributes to leading virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges, and shares ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Contributes to intellectual property (IP) and identifies patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Participates in external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams. Qualifications: Required/Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting • OR equivalent experience. • 4+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of cloud based applications Other Requirements: Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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: • The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. • Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification:This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance Additional/Preferred Qualifications: Technical • Hands-on experience building solutions or POCs with: • Azure OpenAI, open-source LLMs, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and/or Mistral RAG or Retrieval Augmented Generation • LangChain or semantic kernel • PyTorch or Tensorflow Machine Learning, including Azure ML Services / ML Flow • Big Data platforms including SQL DW (Synapse), Snowflake, Redshift, Spark (EMR/HDInsight) • Advanced Analytics, including Azure Databricks • Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs including scalability, security and resiliency, database migrations, and cloud technology management. Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in the following Data Platform Cloud solutions and/or data estate workloads. • SQL platforms including SQL Server (Database/Analysis Services), Azure SQL DB, OSS Databases (PostgreSQL), ETL/ELT systemsNoSQL Databases including Azure Cosmos DB, and OSS Databases (Cassandra, Mongo etc) • Visualization tools, including PowerBIGeneral awareness of Data Governance and Stewardship processes • The technical aptitude, enthusiasm and desire to adapt to change, learn new technologies and understand relevant industry and cloud trends. Education • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting • OR equivalent experience. • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications). • Professional Cloud Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, Database, Big Data, BI, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Experiences • 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). • 4+ years experience working on technical projects. • Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software engineering and/or professional services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle, or similar desired • Knowledge of Azure cloud services • General Knowledge of competitive cloud services • Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of enterprise public cloud platforms and related industry/marketplace • Partners: Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 26th 2025 Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #MSFTSecurity #microsoftredteam #MSCareerEvents25 #MSFTNBMBAA2025 #SCS #AzureSecurity

Lead telemetry intake, triage, and operational handoffs while managing onboarding, backlog, SLA performance, and process documentation to ensure scalable and reliable telemetry operations. | Requires 7+ years in software lifecycle or telemetry operations, 3+ years people management, expertise in telemetry pipelines, security operations, and ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background check and citizenship verification. | The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. We are hiring a Telemetry Engineering Operations Manager for the Telemetry Engineering team! This role plays a pivotal part in orchestrating the intake, triage, and execution of telemetry-related requests across engineering, product, and operational domains. It ensures that telemetry processes are scalable, standardized, and responsive to evolving business needs by driving the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), managing service onboarding, and coordinating cross-functional handoffs. The Operations Manager partners closely with engineering leads, product managers, and stakeholders such as the Global Hunting, Oversight, and Strategic Triage (Ghost) team and the Infrastructure and Configuration Engine (ICE) team to clarify ownership boundaries, resolve solutioning gaps, and maintain accountability for request fulfillment. By systematizing intake paths (e.g., predefined services, engineering asks, and ambiguous cases), the role enables efficient routing, reduces ad hoc decision-making, and supports strategic initiatives like heartbeat monitoring and backlog reduction. Success in this role requires proficiency in process design acumen, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to translate complex workflows into actionable playbooks that enhance telemetry reliability, compliance, and data aggregation at scale. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Responsibilities: • Lead Intake and Triage Processes: Design and manage structured intake paths for telemetry-related requests, distinguishing between known operational cases and complex engineering asks. Ensure efficient routing to appropriate teams and reduce ambiguity in request handling. • Own Operational Handoffs and Escalations: Oversee the transition of telemetry issues from engineering to operations, particularly in scenarios like data drift or loss. Ensure timely escalation, follow-through, and resolution tracking across service owners and stakeholders. • Drive Service Onboarding and Stakeholder Engagement: Manage onboarding workflows for partner teams such as Infrastructure and Configuration Engine (ICE) and Operations Substrate (OPS Sub), building operational muscle and fostering collaboration. Capture lessons learned to improve future onboarding efforts. • Monitor Backlog and Service Level Agreement (SLA) Performance: Track intake volumes, backlog age, and SLA adherence across telemetry request queues. Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms to surface trends and inform leadership decisions. • Standardize and Document Operational Models: Create and maintain playbooks and SOPs that define prioritization models, escalation paths, and ownership boundaries. Ensure these models are externally communicable and scalable as the team expands its scope. • Support Strategic Initiatives and Dependency Management:Coordinate delivery of strategic projects like heartbeat monitoring, ensuring external dependencies are tracked, escalated, and resolved. Report progress and risks to leadership with transparency. • Enable Knowledge Management and Process Improvement: Address gaps in data cataloging, request tracking, and historical context by implementing centralized knowledge systems. Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and stakeholder feedback. Embody our Culture and Values Qualifications: Required Qualifications: • Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 7+ years of experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection, security operations center (SOC) detection, threat analytics, security incident and event management (SIEM), and information technology (IT) operations. • 3+ years people management experience. • 6+ years of experience in operations, program management, or engineering roles with a focus on telemetry, automation, or data 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. • Citizenship Verification : This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable. Preferred Qualifications: • Proven experience with telemetry pipelines, data cataloging, and enrichment workflows. Familiarity with platforms like MS Shield, Vanquish, HostIDS, and Geneva is highly beneficial. • Ability to design scalable intake and triage processes, develop SOPs, and maintain operational playbooks. Experience in translating complex workflows into clear, customer-facing documentation is essential. • Demonstrated success in managing cross-functional handoffs and collaborating with engineering, product, and operations teams. Should be able to clarify ownership boundaries and drive alignment across teams. • Understanding of persona-based access models, data entitlement reviews, and privacy approval workflows. Experience in managing sensitive data requests and ensuring compliance with organizational standards is critical. • Experience in backlog tracking, SLA adherence, and intake volume analysis. Ability to surface trends and risks through dashboards and reporting tools. • Effective communication, adaptability, and leadership skills. Should be able to mentor others, elevate team outcomes, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and accountability. Security Operations Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 1, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #MSFTSecurity #CyberDefenseOperations

Contribute to Java compiler enhancements and tooling for Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, collaborating with developers and customers. | Bachelor's degree with 4+ years coding experience including Java and compiler work, plus AI-assisted development tool usage. | Any Developer. Any App. Any Platform. Microsoft continues to make big investments to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The Developer Division at Microsoft creates modern tools & services that help developers build apps & services for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iOS, Android, Azure - Microsoft's cloud, and many more. Within the Developer Division, the Languages, Runtimes, and Compilers Group at Microsoft is responsible for best-in-class support for C++, Java, .NET (C#, Visual Basic, and F#), Python, Rust, and Go. Developer Division in CoreAI believes that software development is rapidly evolving in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We are building the future of platforms and tools for this new era-and we are looking for developers who are not only early adopters of AI-powered development tools, but who are also actively exploring how Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance their effectiveness and impact. Be a part of a team that values collaboration and the idea of working better together. Come and help us define the language, optimize the compiler and runtime, and build tools that empower developers worldwide to build great software. The Java Engineering Group in the Developer Division is responsible for building best-in-class support for Java workloads running on Azure (Microsoft's Cloud) and other Microsoft services. We performance tune Java applications and services at massive scale, build insightful performance diagnostic tooling, work on the Java Virtual Machine (VM) itself and act as a liaison between Microsoft and the wider Java ecosystem. Our Java VM Engineering team is looking for a Senior Compiler Engineer who has a passion for learning new technologies, interacting with colleagues and customers, and a strong desire to make the work of Java users and developers more productive, satisfying, and enjoyable. If you are interested in growing your engineering career, there is no better place to start! Microsoft Culture 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: • Work in a collaborative, learning team environment that interacts with and gathers feedback from all types of users and developers of Java. • Contribute compiler enhancements, features, and bug fixes to customers as part of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, and upstream that work to the OSS OpenJDK project. • The software you build will be used by millions of developers all over the world, allowing them to achieve more in whatever field they work. • Participate in a team in which establishing your own personal career path while maintaining a healthy work/life balance is a core principle. • MS Culture & Values: Embody our Culture and Values . Qualifications: Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python • OR equivalent experience. • 4+ years of experience working on compilers • 6+ months of experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, or similar) to enhance productivity and code quality • Experience applying AI technologies (such as large language models or code generation tools) in software development workflows, including tasks like static analysis, automated documentation, or test generation 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. Preferred Qualifications: • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python • OR equivalent experience. • 8+ years of experience developing with C/C++ • 8+ years of experience working on compilers • 2+ years of experience in programming language design, OS internals, and/or managed runtimes • 2+ years of experience with OpenJDK development and/or HotSpot VM engineering • Demonstrates knowledge of low-level programming concepts, including memory management, the hardware/software interface, and concurrency Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft posts positions 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, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #CoreAI #DDJL #DevDiv

Design and deliver enterprise Data & AI cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, engage with customers to drive transformation, and provide technical leadership and advisory. | Bachelor's degree, 4+ years cloud/infrastructure experience, 4+ years customer-facing role, 4+ years enterprise AI/ML solution design and implementation, cloud certifications, and U.S. citizenship with security clearance eligibility. | We are looking for a Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI to join our Federal organization. The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources - including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment - Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community. Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. Responsibilities: We are looking for a Senior Cloud Solution Architect - Data & A.I, who is passionate about driving our customers' transformation on Microsoft Azure. This is a customer-facing role, owning the technical relationship between the customer and Microsoft, helping customers to leverage their Microsoft investments through architecture, and operational health engagements. • You will understand customers' overall data estate Business and IT priorities and success measures to design Data & Analytics solutions that drive business value and drive positive Customer Satisfaction & become a trusted advisor. • You will ensure that solution exhibits high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment and provide feedback and insights from customers/partners. • You will develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments and identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging SA subject matter expertise. Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable Intellectual Property (IP). • You will apply technical knowledge to architect and design solutions that meet business and IT needs, create Data & Analytics roadmaps, drive Proof of Concepts (POC) and Minimal Viable Product (MVP), and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key AI technologies where appropriate. • You will be the Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers and drive product improvements. • You will maintain technical skills and knowledge, keep up to date with market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the AI technical community while educating customers on Azure platform. • You will accelerate customer outcomes - Share expertise, contribute to IP creation & re-use to accelerate customer outcomes and obtain relevant accreditations and certifications. Qualifications: Required/Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. 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. • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship- based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United states federal, state, and/or local(or applicable country) United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport. Additional/Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. • 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). • 4+ years experience working on technical projects in Data & AI in an enterprise cloud environment. • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications). • 4+ Years of experience in designing, prototyping, and operationalizing AI/ML solutions for enterprise and/or large U.S. Public Sector customer environments, including successful implementations of computer vision, natural language processing, and predictive analytics systems. • 4+ Years experience in proof of concept (POC) development, solution design, and production implementation of AI/ML solutions, with demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between research prototypes and scalable, resilient production systems. • 4+ Years working with MLOps workflows, MLFlow, and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow in cloud environments, including expertise in model versioning, automated testing, continuous integration/deployment of ML models, and performance monitoring at scale. • 2+ Years of experience briefing executive-level customers with a proven track record of creating impactful presentations for senior leadership and successfully persuading, educating, or informing audiences while navigating complex business and technical environments, resulting in significant contract wins or solution adoptions. • 2+ Years of experience with cloud-native architectures on major platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform), particularly in designing and implementing secure, compliant solutions for regulated industries or government agencies. • 2+ Years of hands-on experience translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions, including cost estimation, resource planning, and implementation roadmaps for AI/ML initiatives. • 1+ Years of experience in deploying and fine-tuning generative AI and large language models (LLMs), implementing efficient prompt engineering practices, orchestrating multi-model inference pipelines, and developing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions for enterprise knowledge systems. Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 16, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #MSCareerEvents25 #MSFTNBMBAA2025

Lead and manage an engineering team to optimize Azure Storage's global fleet infrastructure, drive scalable AI/ML automation solutions, and engage with senior leadership to influence strategy. | Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 6+ years coding experience in relevant languages, 2+ years people management, 3+ years cloud infrastructure/storage experience, and deep understanding of server hardware and fleet management. | As a Principal Software Engineering Manager - Azure Storage, you will lead strategic initiatives to optimize fleet health and reduce offline capacity across hyperscale environments. This role is pivotal in driving intelligent solutions that improve reliability, minimize operational overhead, and enable scalable Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads for customers like Open Artificial Intelligence (Open AI), Temu, and others. You'll partner across engineering, product, and industry teams to modernize data infrastructure, accelerate digital transformation, and deliver measurable impact in sustainability and efficiency. The Principal Software Engineering Manager - Azure Storage, will lead a team of developers focused on scaling and optimizing one of the world's largest storage server fleets. Your mission is to reduce offline capacity and manual operational burden through intelligent automation and AI-driven solutions. This high-impact role offers visibility at the VP level, opportunities to shape fleet strategy, and the flexibility of working across time zones in a collaborative, remote-friendly environment. 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: • Lead and manage a high-performing engineering team focused on scaling and optimizing Azure Storage's global fleet infrastructure. • Drive planning and execution of team deliverables, ensuring alignment with partner teams, business goals, technical strategy, and service-level objectives. • Develop and deliver scalable features that reduce offline capacity, improve fleet reliability, and minimize manual operational overhead and risk. • Leverage AI/ML to build intelligent automation for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and fleet health optimization. • Engage with senior leadership, including VP-level stakeholders, to influence roadmap priorities and communicate impact. • Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers). • Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Qualifications: Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Python • OR equivalent experience. • 2+ year(s) of deep understanding of server hardware architecture and fleet-level hardware lifecycle management, including diagnostics, telemetry, and failure mitigation. • 2+ years of people management experience. • 3+ years of technical background in cloud infrastructure, storage systems. Preferably within hyperscale environments. • 3+ years of demonstrated ability to plan and execute complex projects, including setting priorities, managing timelines, and delivering results across cross-functional teams. 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: • M icrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with AI/ML-driven automation for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, or system optimization. • Experience communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to engage Vice President (VP)-level leadership and influence technical roadmaps. • Experience driving engineering excellence, including service quality, reliability, and operational readiness. • Demonstrated comfort working across time zones in a remote-friendly, globally distributed team environment. Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 16, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Lead cloud solution architecture and consulting engagements for federal clients, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions aligned with customer goals. | Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 8+ years in cloud/infrastructure technologies, active US Top Secret security clearance, experience in consultative sales and cloud architecture, and preferred cloud certifications. | Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Growth mindset encourages each of us to lean in and learn what matters most to our customers, to create the foundational knowledge that enables us to make customer-first decisions in everything we do. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Solution Architect to join our Federal organization. The Microsoft Federal organization was established to address the unique mission, legal/regulatory requirements, and procurement rules and processes of the United States Government (USG). Microsoft Federal is committed to ensuring its resources - including appropriately qualified, experienced, and certified personnel (with necessary security clearances or otherwise) are available as needed to meet USG evolving needs. To that end, Microsoft embraces, as a mission-critical philosophy, flexibility in the recruiting, hiring, and workforce assignment of Microsoft Federal personnel. Microsoft Federal personnel can expect to serve in various roles in the Microsoft Federal organization during the course of their career to meet evolving USG needs, regardless of segment - Civilian, Defense, or intelligence community. Responsibilities: Business Impact Operates according to required operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Collaborates across Microsoft and customer/partner teams through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Proactively manages business and technical risks, adapts methodology and applies governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Continuously prioritizes among competing demands in their work and identifies where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals. Delivers solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively helps the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Guides customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provides feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content. Proactively identifies new opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition for supported platforms to empower cloud success, foster and strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Actively listens to and respectfully challenges customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Identifies, and evaluates industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gathers customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and maps existing architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Proactively captures opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities aligned with Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model. Proactively identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption. Applies business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints. Customer Centricity Proactively acts as the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams and internal communities leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems. Identifies patterns of feedback across customers/partners/territories/industries and leverages them to develop strategic and actionable insights. Presents business cases to program managers to influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate. Identifies and/or translates customer/partner problems into industry solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, and explains why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings. Proactively helps the customer/partner adopt and use Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Builds relationships with technical decision makers (TDMs), and helps build the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Independently interacts as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required. Drives self and guides other team members to focus on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Defines customer/partner conditions of success by leveraging an understanding of customer goals. Anticipates and addresses customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, and executes strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation. Partner Specialization Identifies and prioritizes several opportunities that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners. Provides assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support. Understands solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and collaborates with Global Partner Solutions (GPS) business stakeholders to lead and execute initiatives to translate opportunities into actions. Proactively guides and supports partners in developing repeatable offerings, practices, products, and solutions. Advises the partner throughout initial strategic customer implementations. Technical Leadership Leverages market insights and demand signals to assist leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Role models technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influences team to drive their own technical readiness. Acts as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices. Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicates those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, IP (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Contributes to the development and modification of Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Provides thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the local level. Contributes to leading virtual teams (v-teams) around technologies and customer/partner challenges, and shares ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape. Demonstrates strong industry knowledge and increases recognition for Microsoft solutions by contributing to and sometimes leading presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Contributes to intellectual property (IP) and identifies patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Participates in external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand and shares learnings across internal teams. Qualifications: Required/Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting • OR equivalent experience. • 4+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of cloud based applications Other Requirements: Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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: • The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination. • Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment. • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification:This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance Additional/Preferred Qualifications: Technical • Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in the following Data Platform Cloud solutions and/or data estate workloads: • Artificial Intelligence, including Azure Cognitive Services • Visualization tools, including Power Platform • SQL platforms including SQL Server (Database/Analysis Services), Azure SQL DB, OSS Databases (PostgreSQL), ETL/ELT systems • NoSQL Databases including Azure Cosmos DB, and OSS Databases (Cassandra, Mongo etc) • General awareness of Data Governance and Stewardship processes • Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs including scalability, security and resiliency, database migrations, and cloud technology management. • The technical aptitude, enthusiasm and desire to adapt to change, learn new technologies and understand relevant industry and cloud trends • Hands on experience building solutions or POC's with Azure OpenAI and/or open source LLM's • Machine Learning, including Azure ML Services / ML Flow • Machine Learning / Data Science and model operationalization processes • Big Data platforms including SQL DW (Synapse), Snowflake, Redshift, Spark (EMR/HDInsight) • Advanced Analytics, including Azure Data Bricks • Familiarity with Azure infrastructure and application development Education • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 6+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting • OR equivalent experience. • Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications). • Professional Cloud Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, Database, Big Data, BI, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Experiences • 4+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). • 4+ years experience working on technical projects. • Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software engineering and/or professional services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle, or similar desired • Knowledge of Azure cloud services • General Knowledge of competitive cloud services • Competitive Landscape: Knowledge of enterprise public cloud platforms and related industry/marketplace • Partners: Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 8, 2025. #MSCareerEvents25 #MSFTNBMBAA2025 Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Design and implement Kubernetes networking solutions, lead engineering efforts, mentor others, and ensure reliability and performance of AKS traffic management products. | 6+ years coding in Go, C#, Rust, or C/C++, 4+ years building distributed systems, 2+ years Kubernetes development, and site reliability engineering experience. | Are you passionate about containerized applications and cloud-native software development? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! At Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) traffic team, we build traffic management solutions for AKS customers. The product streamlines communication and enhances the reliability of micro-services in a cloud-native environment. Our mission is to make networking "just work" for Kubernetes developers-whether they're deploying their first service or operating a complex, multi-tier application across regions. As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Kubernetes Service team member, you will be responsible for working with key stakeholders to design the architecture, implement key components, ship the product and support the customers. This opportunity will allow you to leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. You will also, partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of open source, cloud platform development, and AI. You'll collaborate with various Azure product teams and the Kubernetes community to shape the future of Kubernetes networking-supporting huge amount of Azure customers, including those building the next generation of AI-powered applications. 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: • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to identify the direction and dependencies for products/features fulfilling a set of scenarios. • Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. • Increase development speed and efficiency across the AKS engineering team. • 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers. Qualifications: Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, Rust, or C/C++ • OR equivalent experience. • 4+ years of experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed solutions. • 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes development. • 2+ years of experience engaging in site-reliability engineering practices and the ability to use AI tools for coding. Other Qualifications: • 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. Preferred Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, Rust, or C/C++ • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, Rust, or C/C++ • OR equivalent experience. • 5+ years of experience designing and delivering advanced networking solutions (east/west and north/south) for large-scale, cloud-native environments. • 3+ years of experience architecting and evolving the Kubernetes Layer 3 to Layer 7 (L3-L7) network stack, including at least one of: Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins, service mesh, edge traffic management, or related control/data plane components. • 3+ years of experience with distributed systems design, scalability, and fault tolerance, including diagnosing and resolving complex issues in production environments; 1+ year of experience with Linux networking internals such as iptables/nftables, extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF), routing, tunneling, and network namespaces. Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br> Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form . Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azurecorejobs