Azure Compute is looking to optimize the cost of goods sold (COGs) for virtual machines by providing customers with a simple way to set up and destroy resources on a predefined schedule, while balancing the trade-off between higher SLA and COGs.
Requirements
- Proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Experience with REST APIs and micro-services.
- Demonstrated problem solving with data structures and algorithms.
- Working with multi-threaded systems.
- 1+ year of experience building distributed systems with the ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment.
- 1+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Responsibilities
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
- Supports identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight.
- With guidance, learns to create and implement code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable.
- Assists and learns about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.
- Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Other
- Works in Eastern Time core business hours.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
