Senior Software Engineer - Azure Traffic Manager

Microsoft

📍 Ireland, Ireland, Ireland

Full-Time Computer Occupations Posted February 19, 2026

Job Description

Overview

If you're passionate about building resilient, intelligent, and globally distributed systems, join us—we're hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Traffic Manager team.

In this role, you'll design and implement cutting-edge traffic routing solutions that ensure high availability, performance, and reliability for some of Microsoft’s most critical services—including Office 365, Xbox, Azure, and LinkedIn—as well as for millions of Azure customers worldwide. You'll work on intelligent DNS-based routing, real-time health monitoring, and seamless failover strategies that keep global applications running smoothly.

You’ll collaborate closely with teams across Azure Networking and beyond, contributing to a platform that handles billions of DNS queries daily. Expect to write highly performant, observable, and scalable code, and to embrace cross-platform development (Windows/Linux) and multiple languages (C/C++/C#). We also value c...