Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 28, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you passionate about engineering and excited to work on cutting-edge technologies at the Intelligent Edge? Our platform powers application delivery, performance, security, load management, and Internet routing for Microsoft, LinkedIn, Azure, and many others. Do you enjoy solving complex challenges related to distributed systems, scalability, and availability at Internet scale? Are you curious about emerging areas like the intelligent edge and eager to innovate in the future of Internet technologies? We want to hear from you!If yes, then join us as we are hiring a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Front Door team . You will design and implement globally distributed, scalable and low latency services that offer application acceleration, and service protection to our critical crown jewels partners such as Office 365, Xbox, Azure services, LinkedIN and to Azure customers. You will collaborate closely within our team, cross geo teams and other product teams at Microsoft to ensure we're maximizing efficiency and deploying highly instrumented code to generate metrics across millions of requests/sec and records from thousands of servers located around the globe. You will embrace Open Source (both using and contributing), cross platform (Windows/Linux), and develop across languages (C/C++/C#/RUST).Our mission is to delight our customers by providing Layer 7 (L7) Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection @Edge, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) level Content Delivery Network (CDN), Global Load balancing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) perimeter services and Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection against DoS and other threats to enable them to maintain high availability and consistency for their workloads. 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, implement, validate, and release software features to critical production components.Maintain scalable services with health monitoring to enable self-healing systems.Engage with teammates and partner teams to understand business needs to maximize impact.Provide technical, and end-to-end leadership for projects on which you work.Innovate and Implement system to enable growth of scalable, critical, and global services.Drive our collaborative, inclusive and passionate team culture.Mentor and coach other engineers to drive ourcollaborative and passionate team cultureOther:Embody our Culture and Values | |