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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 31, 2025 | |
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OverviewOperating microservices at scale in Azure's foundational layers presents unique and complex challenges. The Asgard Platform Services team exists to empower service owners in the Azure Core organization by delivering a GitOps-driven platform that encapsulates essential capabilities-such as service lifecycle management, discovery, call routing, reverse proxying, monitoring, configuration management, and secrets management-into robust, reusable services. As a platform team, we tackle the hardest problems of scale, reliability, and automation, driving quality and consistency across services at the core of Azure. We are a small, high-impact group that values innovation, collaboration, and ownership. If you are passionate about building transformative solutions and enjoy wearing many hats to deliver results, we want you on our team.As a Senior Software Engineer on the Asgard Platform Services team, you will work on critical services within Azure's foundational layer. You will collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements, develop Artifical Intelligence (AI)-assisted and automated solutions for service management and support, and modernize management tools for microservice platforms. This role offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, drive innovation in developer productivity, and shape the future of platform engineering at scale. Flexible work options are available, including partial or full work-from-home arrangements.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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and operate scalable, reliable platform services and developer tools that address the unique challenges of microservices at Azure's core.Collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams to define requirements and deliver solutions that improve service lifecycle management, monitoring, configuration, and security.Implement and optimize AI-assisted and automated solutions to enhance operational support, incident response, and developer productivity.Modernize and extend management tools and platform services, focusing on usability, performance, and actionable insights for service owners.Drive technical excellence by introducing automation, best practices, and improvements in service reliability, sustainability, and compliance.Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring and supporting services in production, responding rapidly to incidents, and ensuring high availability.Mentor and support the growth of engineers by providing technical guidance, sharing best practices, and fostering a collaborative team environment. | |