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Overview

Are you interested in working on large-scale projects at the core of Microsoft Azure? Do you have experience in distributed computing systems programming and enjoy solving complex challenges? Are you ready to help engineering teams deliver their best work? If so, the Azure Core Compute team may be the right place for you.

Azure Core Compute is one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses, focused on making Azure the world’s computer that powers customer workloads. The team is responsible for general-purpose compute offerings and control plane management across host nodes, virtual machines (VMs), containers, and bare metal systems, while exploring advanced technologies such as confidential computing, hardware offloads, and disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, we aim to deliver industry-leading availability, reliability, performance consistency at scale, compliance, and security.

As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will build features that manage millions of machines and collaborate across organizations to meet security, scalability, elasticity, latency, and reliability requirements. You will have opportunities to learn new technologies, design future services that adapt to hardware evolution, and contribute innovative ideas to improve products and engineering practices. This role offers significant growth potential, including opportunities to advance into senior technical leadership positions.

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

• 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 to bring clarity and provides estimation.
• Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries.
• 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.
• Act as a DRI for release management, ensure the release sticks to the schedule by identifying reasons for blockers/delays, improve the signals that are blocking deployments, triage the issues are new vs existing, mitigate and work towards improving the release process.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the security, 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 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 2+ years of experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.

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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 2+ years of experience in 
  • Creating componentized and well-architected software and 
    improving service operations or engineering fundamentals.
  • Designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
  • Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers.

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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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