Senior Software Engineer
Join the team responsible for building and operating the critical infrastructure that Azure services rely on for availability, reliability, and scale. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve the infrastructure that powers Azure Throttling Solutions (ATS).
This role spans the full stack and focuses on the foundational technologies that support every service, including large-scale performance, reliability, security hardening, observability, and live-site excellence. ATS runs on Azure Service Fabric across Azure regions and sovereign clouds, and this role helps ensure that the platform remains resilient, secure, efficient, and highly available.
The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and improving shared platforms where every enhancement benefits multiple services and engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Build and operate highly reliable infrastructure
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that power ATS across Azure regions and sovereign clouds.
- Drive availability, performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across the Data Plane, Management Plane, and Control Plane.
Drive architecture and technical strategy
- Lead design discussions, evaluate alternatives, and create design documents for complex infrastructure initiatives.
- Balance tradeoffs across performance, scalability, resilience, operational simplicity, and cost.
Deliver changes safely and incrementally
- Break down large migrations and infrastructure changes into phased rollouts with clear validation and rollback strategies.
- Validate solutions through incremental deployment approaches before broad adoption.
Improve observability and operational excellence
- Build deep telemetry and monitoring capabilities into platform services.
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) during incidents, conduct root cause analysis, author postmortems, and drive long-term reliability improvements.
- Enhance troubleshooting guides, runbooks, and operational processes.
Raise the engineering bar
- Review code for correctness, security, maintainability, and testability.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical discussions, and engineering best practices.
- Establish reusable patterns and standards across teams.
Collaborate across engineering teams
- Partner across ATS organizations, including Data Plane, Management Plane, Control Plane, Client SDK, and Azure partner teams.
- Resolve dependencies, align integration strategies, and improve end-to-end platform reliability.
Apply AI-assisted engineering practices
- Leverage AI-powered development tools, including GitHub Copilot, throughout the software development lifecycle for design exploration, implementation, testing, and review while maintaining accountability for delivered solutions.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python;
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 8+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Experience building, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems in a cloud environment (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
Understanding of performance engineering, profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing latency-sensitive services operating at scale.
Experience with Service Fabric, Kubernetes, or comparable distributed runtime platforms.
Experience designing and maintaining observability solutions using technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Geneva/MDM, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
Proven ability to migrate critical systems using phased rollouts, feature flags, side-by-side validation, and zero-downtime deployment approaches.
Experience serving as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), responding to production incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and delivering long-term reliability improvements.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Software Engineering IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 114,400 $ CAD à 203,900 $ CAD par année.
Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
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Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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