Senior Software Engineer

Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. We are the Azure Core team that builds and manages the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services. We have an exciting opportunity for you to innovate and shape the world’s computers, and we encourage you to apply and learn more!  

 

If you are a Senior Software Engineer with experience in Cloud and Web Services technologies, eager and able to delve into and learn exciting new technologies, with the tenacity to solve hard technical problems, then this position is for you.  Be part of an open, fun, and diverse team that is focused on building next generation common operational platforms, services, and solutions for Azure cloud. We leverage cutting edge Azure service, data, and ML technologies to build products that are widely used across Microsoft teams. We embrace inclusivity and diverse ideas – we use empathy, trust, and ownership to drive our team culture and deliver products in a quick and iterative manner. You will be working in a fast-paced environment, tackling problems that don’t have a defined solution, but require creativity and teaming to deliver meaningful business outcomes. We continuously strive for world class engineering and operational excellence. You will have the freedom to influence our designs and architectural roadmap and drive specific goals around scalability and availability.  

 

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

• Technical leadership, coaching and mentoring a team of highly skilled Software Engineers. 
• Build scalable systems and services for operational efficiency and managing Azure cloud services at scale.   
• Work with Azure service teams to identify and articulate investment areas to drive efficiency, scale, and availability of the platform. 
• Work with data science teams to build data-driven approach to identify gaps and improvements. 
• Architect, design, and implement cloud engineering systems and platforms. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND senior 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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience building and operating web services, IaaS, PaaS on Azure, AWS, or Google 
• Experience building scalable and high-available services in Cloud.  
• Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded, asynchronous programming, architecture at scale.  
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills.  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

 

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