Senior Software Engineer

Azure Compute is the core of our cloud platform and is growing fast. Compute is undergoing a revolution starting with Virtual Machines, containers and container orchestrator frameworks like Kubernetes and recently the “Serverless” revolution which enables developers to build powerful and scalable apps without having to deal with the complexity of operating distributed and scalable systems.

Azure Functions is at the heart of Azure’s serverless platform and is the next generation of cloud compute.  It runs in more than 50 regions and already handles billions of invocations daily. We are looking for a developer to join the Azure Functions team to help design and build the next set of features that will help define how cloud native applications are built.  This is a unique opportunity to help build cutting-edge services, opportunity to do deep distributed systems development and drive strategic initiatives that are key to the overall company direction. You will have the opportunity to work on cutting edge technology including managing containers, big data, serverless all at planet scale.

For this particular role, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for designing, coding, validating and shipping scenarios related to supporting features in Azure Functions. This includes ensuring that the running of function apps involving  scenarios of Machine Learning/Automation/Web on Azure Functions are optimized for reliability, performance and scalability. In addition to the runtime you will also be responsible for developing and maintain all the relevant tooling so that customers working on relevant scenarios on the Azure Functions platform have a great experience.

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

• 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.
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

Other

• Embody our Culture  &  Values 

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.

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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java