Senior Software Engineer - Virtualization and Kernel

Microsoft Corporation

📍 Multiple Locations, United States, United States

Full-time other-general Posted February 27, 2026

Job Description

**Overview**

The Virtualization Core Platform team is responsible for building the foundational operating system components of Microsoft’s virtualization stack. This technology powers millions of virtual machines (VMs) across Microsoft products such as Azure, Windows, and Copilot, enabling secure and efficient cloud-scale operations. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on low-level components of the virtualization platform, including the hypervisor, kernel, and device assignment. You will collaborate with silicon partners to enable new hardware features and improve performance, reliability, and security.

The role involves designing and coding solutions for core virtualization technologies, including support for containers and multiple platforms such as Linux, while contributing to innovations in CPU, memory, and device virtualization. You will drive cross-organizational initiatives to enable new scenarios end-to-end, and help define the next generation of vir...