Microsoft is building a planet-scale multi-modal database from the ground up and needs a Senior Software Engineer to lead and collaborate with a team of passionate engineers to drive ideas to impactful results in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Experience in shipping products and services.
- Currently programming/coding in your current or most recent role.
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency (threads, tasks, futures, async/await).
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and/or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Experience with Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS).
- Experience with live site operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production support roles.
- Experience with Helm.
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.
- Embody our culture and values.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
- Travel 0-25%
- 3 days/week in-office
- Full-Time employment
- Industry leading healthcare, Educational resources, Discounts on products and services, Savings and investments, Maternity and paternity leave, Generous time away, Giving programs, Opportunities to network and connect
