Software Engineer II

Azure Resource Notifications (ARN) is the pub/sub service for the Azure control plane. Our mission is to deliver effective, reliable, efficient, and compliant push notifications for all Azure resources.

ARN is the one stop place to subscribe to notifications for changes to Azure resources and completions of control plane operations. We strive to enable our partners and customers to adopt stream-based data processing patterns so that they can build more reactive and responsive near-real-time applications. ARN powers the at-scale collection and routing of inventory data for Azure and our customers and establishes and enforces standards for how resources should be modeled and organized. We work with services across Azure to source up-to-date resource information and distribute it reliably, compliantly, and with low latency to internal and external customers. We process billions of ingress and egress notifications daily and our data volume is doubling every 6 months.

As a Software Engineer II in ARN you will help execute critical initiatives to address various aspects of the platform, e.g., reliability, scalability, security, as well as contribute to strategic investments in new areas to address the growing needs of Azure and our customers. You will refine your existing skills and develop new expertise in building high scale distributed systems, empowering customers, and working across organizational boundaries. This is a flexible opportunity that allows for remote work.

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.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building the various aspects of our platform that enable high throughout, near-real-time delivery, manageability and observability. You will have opportunities to experiment, propose improvements, build on the work of others, and contribute to the success of your peers.
• Propose technical design and have the autonomy and accountability to execute on your proposals – implementation, validation, deployment to production, and support while in operation.
• Work towards becoming a subject matter expert and developing deeper understanding of the business problems solved by our team. You will work towards being able to create clarity for the team and mentor  team members.
• Participate in code reviews and will provide and receive constructive feedback to improve overall code quality. You will also take part in design discussions, seek feedback, and ensure that designs are scalable and fit well with the rest of the system.
• Overall, your responsibilities are at the intersection of understanding distributed systems principles and patterns, leveraging programming language runtime internals to extract additional performance and learning and drawing conclusions from experiments.
• Opportunities to exhibit growth mindset by learning various technologies and product features and to be a member of an agile, performance-focused engineering team.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliable operation of our services.

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.

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.

Preferred 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 Master'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