Senior Software Engineer

The growth of Azure is driven by the Azure Core organization which focuses on building a highly scalable, performant, and reliable distributed cloud, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual servers and containers. We create an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available. This team owns the core management plane at regional level which is responsible for managing the lifecycle of all VMs in Azure. We are in the process of redesigning this layer to provide extremely reliable and fast on-demand compute instances irrespective of the size and scale of the service (multiple orders of magnitude scalable, faster and reliable than today). We are working on architectural and structural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack. The team is working on a few different areas that will have reduce deployment times and improve reliability to surpass our competition. The approach here is multipronged. It involves algorithmic investments, deeply involved architectural/protocol changes to improve parallelization or eliminate steps in the workflow, and smart innovative solutions to pre-process as much of the work as possible. We focus on certain high impact scenarios to enable new businesses on Azure. We are a result-oriented team working vertically through the whole stack to deliver order of magnitude improvements.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Compute you will be able to exercise your growth mindset to identify new ways to solve our critical scale/performance/reliability challenges for our cloud native and mission critical customers. You will be working closely with senior leaders and customers to define the direction of the product and deliver impact working closely with junior engineers in the team to develop a large-scale distributed software services and solutions. You will be able to provide thought leadership and technical direction with architectural inputs for the team to deliver high quality products. We expect the set-up to help you accelerate your own career growth, develop business acumen as well as technical expertise by working and learning closely with other senior leaders in the org.

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.

Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Ensure that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.

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.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience working on distributed systems/cloud services.

Other Qualifications:

• 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, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with
  • C#/Java/C/C++/ and systems programming,
  • AND online services and Machine learning/AI.
• Customer and partner focus - able to understand their needs through a data driven approach.
• Ability to
  • organize and implement integration tests