Software Engineer - Azure Compute Team

Does thinking at hyper scale excite you? Do you love systems design and virtualization technology? Do you enjoy contributing to and working in a healthy, diverse, and inclusive work environment?

Do you like driving new initiatives in a fast-paced organization exploding with growth? If so, then the Azure Compute Hardware Platform Innovation team is the place for you.

As a Software Engineer in Azure Compute, you will define and validate the hardware and virtualization technologies that provide computational capabilities for Azure. You will work with partners and customers to deliver innovative solutions and find ways to improve efficiency. This opportunity will allow you to impact millions of users, accelerate your career growth, and constantly learn and wear many hats as you iteratively deliver value to customers.

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.

This US based remote role does not provide relocation.

The team is hiring for Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer. 

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for system architecture and design.
• Characterizes the performance of hardware components and platforms, and optimizes systems for performance, cost savings, and reliability.
• Builds and improves automation to aid in performance characterization, lab and scale testing, and onboarding of new hardware platforms.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight, as well as to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• 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 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.
• Other
  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years experience with computer hardware architecture, operating systems, networking, performance characterization, and server hardware technologies in the cloud. 

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ years experience working with vendors, customers, and internal partners in a cloud environment and defining, validating, and managing hardware virtualization te