Senior Software Engineer

The Azure Edge & Platform Organization brings together Edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver Edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering system solutions to Azure engineers and customers. Within Azure E+P, Dialtone Infrastructure Management is a diverse team focused on ensuring that core services required to support recovery efforts in case of a widespread Azure outage are always available.

The team is responsible for maintaining a fleet of bare-metal and virtual assets across multiple regions that host recovery services. We are heavily invested in creating and delivering quality automations to reduce the amount of human toil needed to spin-up new hardware and virtual machines, which allows a much faster time to asset utilization and increases overall capital asset ROI. We integrate hybrid and non-cloud-based solutions to provide the robust recovery platform needed to support Azure world-wide.

As a Senior software engineer on our team, you will be responsible for driving new investments to solve hard problems, defining architectures, partnering with teammates, and ensuring high code quality, high availability, and scalability of our services. You will have opportunities to learn and grow in your role developing pipeline features and contributing to our Azure based services as needed. You will partner effectively with senior mentors on the team to deliver value and impact to the entire Dialtone Management product line.

The team is deeply committed and passionate about maintaining an excellent, collaborative team culture where diversity and inclusion are highly valued. We are also strongly committed to individual growth and development and provide an environment for everyone to do their best work. On our team you will have the opportunity to have great impact, continue to grow and advance your career while building strong relationships with an amazing team of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality features and services end-to-end to support our engineering system from design to development to release
• Ensure appropriate telemetry, monitoring and alerting for developed features and services
• Solve significant technological challenges impacting the team and our customers
• Partner and collaborate with peer engineers and customers to deliver impact for our services
• Participate and provide high quality feedback in design reviews, code reviews and other team activities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
• 2+ years of sound understanding of Computer Science fundamentals including Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented Design, System Design. 
• 2+ years of problem solving and design skills, with demonstrated passion for security, quality, performance, and engineering excellence.

Other Requirements: 

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.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local [or INSERT applicable country] government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform, especially Azure DevOps, App Insights, Key Vault, Storage accounts, etc…
• Prior experience with shipping services over multiple release cycles.
• Experience with container technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in implementing and integrating open-source tools at-scale with a focus environment management
• Knowledge and passion for Kanban or Agile develop