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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Oregon, Hillsboro | |
 Oct 29, 2025 | |
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OverviewDo you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware and systems designs to propel Microsoft's cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy? Join our Compute System Architecture (CSA) team within the System Planning and Architecture (SPARC) organization in Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI). AHSI is the team behind Microsoft's expanding cloud business, responsible for delivering the hardware systems and infrastructure for cloud computing across Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. The SPARC organization is responsible for strategy, planning and architecture pathfinding, and manages Azure's hardware roadmap from architecture concept, through production for Microsoft's current and future offerings. The CSA team within SPARC is at the forefront of systems architecture and technology pathfinding spanning compute, memory, storage, and system interconnects. Drawing on deep insights of workloads, emerging technology trends, and focused industry engagements, CSA team's charter is to define and evaluate novel systems architecture innovations through hardware/software co-design and advance them through technical readiness for productization. The CSA team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who could be part of the team to develop hardware/software co-design, software prototyping, and building reference designs to enable pathfinding for novel system architecture spanning OS memory management, memory overcommit, memory disaggregation, data acceleration and resource virtualization capabilities. You will play a critical role in identifying and evaluating performance of various Database systems in the cloud with emerging memory technology. Your work will directly impact Microsoft's cloud strategy, enabling smarter decisions for total cost of ownership, performance, power, cost, and sustainability. You'll gain deep expertise in cloud usage, emerging technologies, and architectural modeling, with opportunities for continuous learning and growth. 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.
ResponsibilitiesAnalyze various cloud Database workload taxonomy to determine which memory tiering/pooling and overcommit solutions suited for Azure usages and deployment.Develop deep insights through workload characterization and correlation to identify systems optimization opportunities by using hardware performance monitoring tools.Analyze fleet telemetry data to enhance the understanding of the various Database usage of the memory/storage/compute resources and recommend various optimization in hardware and software.Collaborate with diverse workload experts across Microsoft and partner ISVs to engineer TCO-optimized solutions for Azure general-purpose and specialized compute fleet.Influence and shapehardware architecture and industry alignment, targeting three-to-six-year timeframe, with data-driven analysis, insights and recommendations. | |