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Senior Software Engineer - Virtualization
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you passionate about bridging the worlds of Linux and Windows at massive scale? Join the Linux on Windows team, where you'll help shape the future of virtualization across Windows client, Windows Server, and Azure. As part of our team, you'll work at the intersection of open-source and proprietary platforms, collaborating with engineers who contribute to both the Windows codebase and the Linux kernel, as well as our cutting-edge and open-source Rust-based VMM.As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, you will design and build innovative solutions that enable seamless Linux virtualization experiences for millions of users and enterprises. You'll have the opportunity to contribute code across multiple operating systems, drive deep technical investigations, and influence the direction of virtualization technologies at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to:Accelerate your career growth by working on cross-platform engineering challenges.Develop expertise in both Windows and Linux internals, as well as modern virtualization stacks.Hone your skills in Rust, systems programming, and large-scale distributed systems.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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.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. | |