The Azure Compute platform is transforming industries and empowering individuals across the globe by delivering world-class cloud infrastructure to host services and workloads at scale. Within this platform, the Azure Holmes team is on a mission to build the world’s best platform for running critical workloads with uninterrupted availability, reliability and scalability. We are hiring experienced engineers to tackle some of the most complex and fascinating challenges in distributed systems.

As the core of the Azure cloud, the Azure Compute platform is a fault-tolerant distributed system built on commodity datacenter hardware. The Holmes team, a key part of this platform, delivers dynamic resource management capabilities that enhance customer availability and platform efficiency. Our services drive innovations such as placement reshaping, defragmentation, overbooking, and transparent maintenance—integrated through intelligent algorithms for optimal performance.

As a Software Engineer II in this role, you will design and build highly available, event-driven microservices that elevate customer experience. You will collaborate with Microsoft Research to integrate cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) models, contributing to the evolution of a platform that powers mission-critical workloads at a global 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