Senior Software Engineer

Are you ready to join an exciting and dynamic team of engineers? If so, Microsoft's Cloud Operations + Innovation team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer!

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, which in turn power Microsoft’s cloud business. The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predicable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. CO+I Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud success.

Sovereign Cloud Engineering (SCE) team develops apps and services to enable sovereign cloud datacenter operations that are scalable, effective, compliant, cost-efficient, and intelligent, so it reliably provides computation capacity for Microsoft clouds and services such as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365. We are looking for a passionate and self-driven Senior Software Engineer to work with the team and our partners to enable the next generation of data center operation with cutting edge features and technology, and make sure it matches the ever-growing cloud computation demands from existing and emerging sovereign clouds around the globe. If you enjoy driving innovation in a fast-paced engineering team, passionate about building great user experiences using the latest cutting-edge technologies, yearn to build highly scalable distributed services, working across a breadth of CO+I systems in addition to being a depth expert in one or more of those systems, this is the right opportunity for you.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day

Responsibilities

• 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).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's 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.

Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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
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