Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

14h

About The Position

It is a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and we are empowering it. Microsoft Azure is at the heart of the Microsoft Cloud, providing the backend infrastructure for hyper-scale distributed and dynamic computing. Our team within Azure delivers the software platform that enables internal Microsoft services—including Office 365, Bing.com, Xbox Live, Skype, and OneDrive—as well as many external customers to run large-scale, mission-critical cloud applications for their businesses. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us evolve, expand, and define our software platform and infrastructure. Areas of focus include ring zero and negative one core infrastructure services, achieving five nines (99.999%) reliability, fault tolerance, distributed service monitoring, operational efficiency across the datacenter hardware lifecycle, performance metrics collection and analysis, alerting, visualization, device operations, and coordination of node diagnostics and repairs. This is a fast-paced environment and an opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft and extremely relevant in the industry. Few opportunities in computer science offer the potential to work at this massive scale. If you are passionate about building robust, highly distributed software systems that define the backbone of the Microsoft Cloud, we would love to connect. 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

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 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 equivalent experience.
Previous experience in delivering cross-platform software
Previous experience in one or more of the following areas: large scale Internet applications, operating systems, distributed systems, client/server and multi-tier architecture, and asynchronous and multi-threaded programming
Strong problem-solving skills, drive for results, and ability to work independently

Responsibilities

Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

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