Software Engineer II

Microsoft

2 - 5 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 10/07/2025

Job Description

Overview

The Azure platform needs to meet the performance demands of Azure, Microsoft's cloud services, and server application developers. Azure and Edge Performance team works on the performance of core Azure components and services. We are responsible for understanding and improving performance end-to-end to help product teams reach performance and efficiency goals for key Azure scenarios. Cross-team collaboration is core to how the team operates.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to implement, enhance, verify and operate the infrastructure for validating performance of core Azure components in the cloud, improve and leverage data gathering and analysis capabilities, and reports results to stakeholders. The position provides opportunities for making an impact on high-growth areas critical for Microsoft, for learning about cloud services and infrastructure, operating systems, performance engineering methodology, workloads design and implementation, and for collaborating and learning from upper-level performance engineering talent.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Qualifications

BS/MS degree in Computer Science OR related technical field
5+ years of software development experience
Experience developing on and for Linux
Proficiency with programming in languages such as, but not limited to, C, C++, C#
Proficiency with programming in languages such as, but not limited to, SQL, KQL
Experience with industry-standard benchmark software suits such as SPEC and TPC
Experience with Linux performance measurements, analysis and tuning, perf, atop, flame graphs
Experience with cloud infrastructure development, including containers and infrastructure as code
Experience with data warehousing, ETL workloads and automation frameworks, dashboards
Experience with data science tools and techniques, EDA

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Responsibilities

Defining, implementing and executing test plans to achieve release priorities and specific customer requirements
Triaging, validating and reporting test results to key stakeholders
Onboarding, validating and tuning industry-standard workloads and benchmarks
Contributing to secure, flexible and reliable infrastructure for test plan execution
Implementing and supporting compliant, efficient and reliable data engineering infrastructure

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.