Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

10d

About The Position

Do you enjoy programming in Rust? Are you passionate about concurrency and interested in building scalable systems? Join a collaborative team where your ideas shape the future of technology and your professional growth is a top priority.

The Node Service team is responsible for orchestrating virtual machine (VM) workflows on Microsoft Azure. The software we develop runs on millions of machines worldwide. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance, compliance, and security.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that operate at massive scale and collaborate across organizations to meet the demands of elasticity, latency, and reliability for our customers. You will have opportunities to explore new technologies and design the next generation of services that adapt to evolving hardware. You will have the freedom to ideate, create, and provide thought leadership—bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices—while growing into a senior technical or organizational leader.

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, Rust, C, C++, C# OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience of designing, building and shipping high quality system software.
• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level