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Senior Server Performance Architect - Microsoft Azure
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Aug 07, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin us as we scale Azure to new heights! We're building innovative systems to enhance the performance and efficiency of the millions of server nodes that power Microsoft Azure. You'll be part of a collaborative and supportive team focused on understanding how hardware and software components work together to shape our Azure virtual machine (VM) products. Our work spans fleet performance optimization, benchmark construction, competitive analysis, customer engagement, platform design influence, and AI-driven performance insights. As a Senior Server Performance Architect in this role, you will work on identifying and addressing VM performance issues. You will find opportunities for improvement through internal testing as well as by working directly with Azure customers to understand their use cases. You will collaborate with teams across Microsoft and with external partners to deliver performance optimizations for our customers. You will learn intricate details about how Azure works, what impacts performance across hardware and software boundaries, and how to create tests that can highlight both performance benefits and opportunities for improvement. In this role, you will actively collaborate with cloud, workload, and hardware experts. Our team is based in Redmond, WA. This is a hybrid work opportunity, and you have the option to work remotely. 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.
ResponsibilitiesIdentify experiments, tools, and methodology to test various scenarios to triage performance improvement opportunities. Work with customers to understand performance requirements and configure performance measurements. Drive performance issues to resolution through partnership with other teams and vendors. Identify areas for potential improvement in both software and hardware. Clearly communicate the status of investigations, resolutions, and next steps or blockers. Contribute to requirement documents for hardware vendors and software partner teams. | |