Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

11d

About The Position

We are the Azure IoT Hub team, a core part of the Azure Digital Operations organization. We design, build, and operate mission-critical IoT services that differentiate Azure in the market.
Our platform delivers highly reliable, secure, and massively scalable connectivity, messaging, and device management capabilities to meet customers’ most demanding scale and availability requirements. We continuously innovate to improve agility, scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across our services.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure IoT Hub team to help build the next generation of Azure’s IoT cloud platform. You will play a key role in developing core IoT Hub services and working across platform teams to deliver highly reliable, scalable, and high-throughput systems. This role offers the chance to solve deep distributed systems challenges in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of experience in developing, shipping, and supporting production grade distributed cloud services.
• 2+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade.
• 5+ years of experience in developing, shipping, and supporting production grade distributed cloud services.
• 2+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade.
• Understanding of Azure cloud and cloud native services.
• Experience building Distributed Systems with reliable guarantees.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Consider diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understand when code is ready to be shared or delivered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees