Senior Software Engineer

Overview

The Azure Specialized team (AzS) is one of the fastest growing parts of the Azure group and is responsible for expanding the capabilities of the Azure cloud in several areas.  This team is a great place to grow your career while working on important initiatives that are key to the future growth of the public cloud.  We are a fun-loving, diverse team that values teamwork & collaboration and provides opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We collaborate regularly across the company from Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, etc. and external vendors such as Nutanix, VMWare, NetApp, HPE, Arista, Cisco, SAP, etc. to enable new experiences for our customers. If you are passionate about working on the latest and hottest areas that will help you develop skills in Networking and Cloud Platforms, this is the team you’re looking for!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for the building a platform for integration of 3rd party products (services/hardware) from VMware, Nutanix, NetApp, etc. and corresponding ecosystem with various products in AzS.  You will be responsible for engineering execution, system architecture, live-site operations, and quality for scenarios such as: Improving the experience for customers to migrate their on-premises applications onto Azure Dedicated Solutions, work across Azure Networking teams such as Express Route (Hybrid stack), SDN, etc. to solve both Network problems and Software problems, and improving the experience for customers to enable Disaster Recovery solutions with their Azure VMware Solution, Nutanix, etc. implementations.

The ideal candidate should be a self-starter with a solid work ethic and should demonstrate a growth mindset. We value those who have a thoughtful point of view, love to collaborate, and contribute to the success of others.  If you’re an exceptional communicator willing to roll-up your sleeves and solve fun technical challenges with a solid engineering team on your side, then this is the right role for you!

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

• 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.

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#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 1+ years experience working on cloud technologies, private cloud platforms like KVM, VMware, Nutanix, OpenStack or Proxmox.

Other Requirements:

• 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 working with remote teams is preferred.
• Prior understanding of compute and networking frameworks to support these private clouds will be an advantage. 
• Prior experience of being accountable for running production systems.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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