Senior Software Architect
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Jul 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you passionate about building complex things using a large number of simple components efficiently, safely, consistently and at scale? Come join a team that values diversity, inclusion, collaboration and working better together to expand the foundation and the core of Azure.As a Senior Software Architect in the Microsoft Capacity Infrastructure Services organization, you will be responsible for working with stakeholders to evolve Azure, from its data center infrastructure to its software and service stack, to their respective lifecycle management, in order to meet rapidly changing customer needs for capacity and services, especially those related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). You'll be also involved to evolve the architecture of relevant tools. This opportunity will allow you to further develop your system design, problem-solving and leadership skills, become adept at cooperating and collaborating with many teams to achieve shared goals, and learn, grow and innovate together with your teammates.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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a tool, service, or platform.Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, and working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.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. | |