Overview
The Azure Regional Networking team is seeking talented, highly motivated engineers to build advanced services and infrastructure for provisioning and managing our cloud-scale physical network. This work spans router hardware, operating systems—including Microsoft’s SONiC—configuration, optical transceivers, and globally distributed orchestration systems.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the scale and architecture of cloud infrastructure. Networks must expand rapidly, support significantly greater capacity, and become easier to deploy, automate, and operate reliably. Meeting these demands requires rethinking how routing, optics, hardware, and software function as an integrated system.
The Azure Regional Networking team operates one of the world’s largest network infrastructures, connecting servers, datacenters, and sites across the global Microsoft Cloud. The team continually advances networking technologies to provide millisecond-level access within datacenters and reach every person on the planet within 15 milliseconds, while delivering exceptional reliability, performance, and security.
In this role, you will own critical Azure network infrastructure components from design through deployment and operations. This highly visible position supports a major and growing investment in Microsoft Azure and AI datacenters, offers broad cross-company exposure, and provides significant opportunities for technical and career 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.
Responsibilities
- Partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
- Lead identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Lead by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders e.g., project managers to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
- AI-Driven Engineering: Apply AI and agents to our own engineering, across design, qualification, deployment and operations, so that engineers spend their time on architecture rather than on process.
- Technical Leadership and Influence: Lead across Azure engineering, hardware, supply chain, datacenter
