Microsoft is seeking to build secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure that powers millions of workloads worldwide, focusing on advancing reliability, elasticity, and security for Azure, one of the world’s largest cloud platforms.
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-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Demonstrable technical leadership experience, with demonstrable results including collaborating with external stakeholders.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems, services, or platforms.
- Proficiency in Rust and/or C++ for systems-level programming.
- 1+ year(s) of experience working in high-stakes production service environments, including live-site operations.
- 1+ year(s) of troubleshooting and debugging skills in distributed or cloud systems.
- 1+ year(s) proficency for learning and growing in Azure core compute and cloud security domains.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements and conceptualize high-level designs for features and scenarios.
- Drive identification of dependencies and develop design documents for Azure Core Compute services.
- Create, implement, debug, refactor, and optimize code to improve maintainability, performance, and security.
- Partner with project managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define project and release plans, leveraging your expertise in distributed systems and service fundamentals.
- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), contributing to on-call rotations, monitoring service health, and restoring services during incidents.
- Proactively learn new technologies, adapting to evolving technical patterns to improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance at scale.
- Serve as a technical contributor in building security-first features, influencing architecture and implementation across Azure Compute Node Services.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Flexible work options are available, including partial work-from-home arrangements.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Demonstrable technical leadership experience.
- Collaborate across organizations, driving technical innovation and influencing future Azure architecture.
