Software Engineer II

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Azure Batch is seeking Software Engineers of all levels to join our growing Dublin team. Azure Batch powers some of the world’s most robust large-scale compute workloads, enabling organizations to run millions of jobs in parallel. It supports High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads across industries such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), genomics, and climate modeling. With increasing demand for large-scale High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence services, we’re building the next generation of solutions to deliver seamless access to cutting-edge compute, networking, and storage resources.

Azure Batch processes billions of tasks every month, supporting global enterprises and research institutions as they tackle their most intensive data and computation challenges. Our service is trusted by customers around the world in workloads that accelerate drug discovery and drive the next breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs).

In addition to traditional HPC scenarios, Azure Batch also powers Artificial Intelligence workloads, serving as the backbone for many of Microsoft’s most advanced AI products and services. By enabling vast parallelization and dynamic resource allocation, Azure Batch accelerates machine learning training, model inference, and large-scale data analysis, helping teams unlock new possibilities in AI research and deployment.

You’ll collaborate with a talented team of experts in distributed systems and cloud computing to create secure, innovative, and scalable products that empower customers to orchestrate and manage HPC and AI workloads on Azure. Together, we’ll redefine what’s possible for compute in the cloud.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, and each day, we foster innovation, collaboration, and inclusion. Our values of respect, integrity, and accountability underpin a culture where everyone is welcome to thrive and grow.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated technical experience in cloud computing, distributed systems, and/or high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building and deployment distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining high service reliability and availability for distributed systems.

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure cloud technology and Microsoft software development tools.
• Experience with Linux, containers, and related cloud-native open source technologies.
• Experience with high-performance computing workloads and/or job schedulers.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals.

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• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.