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Do you want to be part of a cloud platform that powers mission-critical automation for enterprises worldwide? Do you want to help design and build the service that orchestrates millions of secure jobs daily across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, managing everything from datacenter operations to business-critical customer workflows?

Do you thrive on solving deeply technical distributed systems challenges while working across full-stack scenarios—from control plane APIs, service fabric, and hybrid agents, to customer experiences and AI-driven copilots? Do you want the opportunity to influence the roadmap and vision of a core Azure service that underpins some of the most critical workloads across Microsoft and its customers?

Azure Automation is a cloud service that enables organizations to simplify, secure, and scale their IT operations. It provides hybrid job orchestration, configuration management, and process automation across Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.

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

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ year (s) experience collaborating with peers and partner teams to achieve joint engineering goals.
• 1+ year (s) experience in coding, debugging, algorithm design, and solving technical problems.
• 1+ year(s) experience with cloud-scale services, server/service management, and adapting to new systems and methodologies.

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• Design and build scalable, secure, and resilient components of the Azure Automation service, enabling customers to automate IT and business operations across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Develop APIs, services, and tooling that orchestrate millions of automation jobs reliably while meeting strict performance and availability SLAs.
• Collaborate with partner Azure services to deliver seamless integration scenarios for customers.
• Contribute to hybrid capabilities, including the Hybrid Runbook Worker, ensuring consistent automation across on-premises datacenters and multi-cloud deployments.
• Leverage AI and intelligent automation to enhance customer experiences and deliver next-generation management solutions.
• Implement telemetry, monitoring, and diagnostics to ensure observability, proactive issue detection, and continuous service improvement.
• Work in an agile, customer-focused team, participating in design reviews, code reviews, and driving high-quality engineering practices.
• Influence the roadmap and vision by contributing technical insights and collaborating across global engineering teams.