The Azure Compute team, builds a fault tolerant, distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual machines (VMs). The team creates an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

This role is in the Availability Platform team, within Azure Compute, that primarily focuses on making sure every Azure VM is available with an  Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99+%. Getting to that target and beyond requires out-of-the box thinking, backed by sound data-driven decisions. The team owns the services that measure the health of millions of Azure machine as well as the control plane services that make all repair decisions in Azure. The team also collaborates closely with data scientists to build predictive failure models to live migrate VMs off machines even before the failure occurs. VM availability is one of the top KPIs for Azure and Microsoft – come be part of the team driving the platform forward on this front.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be joining a talented team that invests in our people and technology for the long term. We emphasize comprehensive designs, incremental development with high quality, shipping frequently, and adapting quickly to customer feedback. Join us in pushing the boundaries of scale, reliability, availability, and efficiency. If you want hands-on services architecture experience at large scale, this is the role for you.

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