New 
Principal 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 Principal Server Performance Architect in this role, you will anticipate, locate, and solve virtual machine 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 Microsoft internal teams, the open-source community, and hardware vendors to deliver performance optimizations that benefit Azure customers. This opportunity will allow you to get deep into virtualized cloud performance plus help shape emerging usage models like bare metal instances. Your experience with server performance will allow you to guide others, multiplying your impact. 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 improvements to resolution through partnership with other teams and vendors. Clearly communicate the status of investigations, resolutions, and next steps or blockers. Contribute to requirement documents for hardware vendors and software partner teams. Guide other engineers working on performance tests, investigations, and analysis methods. | |