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Get ready to operate at hyperscale!
We are building new systems to optimize the millions of server nodes underlying the Microsoft Azure cloud. You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team chartered to understand and improve how hardware and software ingredients come together to form our Azure VM products. Our work includes optimizing fleet performance, competitive comparisons, developing tools that leverage AI for anomaly detection, and providing input to hardware selection.
As a Performance Engineer in this role, you will work on detecting and addressing performance issues and help root cause potential opportunities for improvement. You will find opportunities for improvements through internal testing as well as by working directly with Azure customers to understand their use cases. You will collaborate with various Microsoft teams and vendors to deliver performance optimizations for our customers. This opportunity will allow you to learn intricate details about how Azure works, what impacts performance when various hardware and software components come together, how to create tests that can highlight both performance benefits and opportunities for improvement. In this role, you will actively collaborate with and learn from cloud, workloads, and hardware experts. This is a hybrid work opportunity, and you have the option to work from home.
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.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Other Requirements:
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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Get ready to operate at hyperscale!
We are building new systems to optimize the millions of server nodes underlying the Microsoft Azure cloud. You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team chartered to understand and improve how hardware and software ingredients come together to form our Azure VM products. Our work includes optimizing fleet performance, competitive comparisons, developing tools that leverage AI for anomaly detection, and providing input to hardware selection.
As a Performance Engineer in this role, you will work on detecting and addressing performance issues and help root cause potential opportunities for improvement. You will find opportunities for improvements through internal testing as well as by working directly with Azure customers to understand their use cases. You will collaborate with various Microsoft teams and vendors to deliver performance optimizations for our customers. This opportunity will allow you to learn intricate details about how Azure works, what impacts performance when various hardware and software components come together, how to create tests that can highlight both performance benefits and opportunities for improvement. In this role, you will actively collaborate with and learn from cloud, workloads, and hardware experts. This is a hybrid work opportunity, and you have the option to work from home.
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.
Responsibilities
- You will identify experiments, tools, and methodology to test various scenarios to triage performance improvement opportunities.
- You will work with customers to understand performance requirements and configure performance measurements.
- You will identify areas for potential improvement in both software and hardware.
- You will clearly communicate the status of investigations, resolutions, and next steps or blockers.
- You will drive performance issues to resolution through parthenrship with other teams and vendors.
- You will contribute to requirement documents for HW vendors and SW partner teams.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience working with C or C++
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience analyzing and optimizing system performance across both hardware and software.
Other Requirements:
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering AND 5+ years of experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering AND 7+ years of experience analyzing and optimizing system performance across both hardware and software.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with performance monitoring tools and analysis methods (e.g. V-Tune, Windows Performance Analyzer, Linux perf, eBPF)
- Programming experience in multiple languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Python.
- Experience with the Arm Instruction Set Architecture.
- Knowledge of basic operating system principles, compilers, program execution and how software uses hardware resources; Familiarity with fundamentals of computer architecture, including page translation, caching, IO devices, DRAM.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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