Microsoft is looking to hire a Software Engineer II for the Azure Front Door team to design and implement globally distributed, scalable, and low-latency services that offer application acceleration and service protection for critical partners and Azure customers. The goal is to provide L7 DDoS protection, HTTP level CDN, Global Load balancing, and WAF protection to ensure high availability and consistency for customer workloads.
Requirements
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- proficient programming experience in one of C, RUST, C++, C-Sharp or Java.
- Drive for delivering high quality implementations and designs while also working on testing and operational aspects of the service as well.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement globally distributed, scalable and low latency services that offer application acceleration, and service protection
- Collaborate closely within our team and other product teams at Microsoft to ensure we’re maximizing efficiency
- Deploying highly instrumented code to generate metrics across millions of requests/sec and records from thousands of servers located around the globe
- Embrace Open Source (both using and contributing)
- Develop across languages (C/C++/C-Sharp)
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
- Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
Other
- 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.
- 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.
- Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
- Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
