Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team! Azure’s core priority is to be world's most trusted, secure, and global cloud and a great place for people to work. Azure Nexus platform is building a team to help develop an edge computing platform to automate and manage the customer hybrid cloud platform and work load deployments and the next generation Internet of Things. We innovate quickly, collaborate, learn from experience and data, provide input to improve features, think creatively, laugh and have fun, all while solving difficult customer and partner problems. You will build, design and operate platforms and products that help mobile operators leverage the Azure to accelerate the digital transformation of their core network operations in order to launch new services in an agile fashion, elastically scale to meet every growing demand for mobile service and dramatically improve operational efficiency thru infrastructure simplification and process automation.

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

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who want to work in a startup-like environment and enjoy tough challenges. You will partner with key Azure platform teams to create products that enable customers to adopt Azure to host their network infrastructure and operations. Our market opportunity is huge, and our team is expanding.

As a Senior SWE you will contribute to the Nexus product vision and be responsible for architecting solutions ground-up.

You will

• Take features from ideation to successful global roll out
• Act as an expert code and design reviewer and mentor other engineers
• Accelerate development velocity for all engineers and deliver continuous improvements to the team’s process and codebase
• Build automation to prevent and/or remediate service problems from becoming production incidents
• Build solid cross group collaboration with other cross-geo teams to remove blockers and drive for comprehensive end-end service delivery
• Leverage other data platforms (open source and within Microsoft) for building solutions

To thrive in this position, you should be a creative and analytical thinker, technical, and committed to excellence. Ability to lead complex projects with a solid record of end to end delivery of high-quality products is a huge plus. You are willing to learn from our customers and your peers.

• Embody our Culture  &  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
• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software
• Experience with configuration, management, diagnostics of network devices (switches, routers) and protocols (ethernet & routing protocols).
• Ability to engage DevOps engineering practices

Other Requirements: 

• Cloud Background check: 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 or 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, JavaScript, or Python