Microsoft's Edge Distribution Services (EDS) Web Services team needs to architect and operate backend web services that deliver critical software like new Windows features, security patches, and apps to billions of devices worldwide, ensuring reliable and safe delivery of updates.
Requirements
- 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 2+ years experience designing, developing, testing, and rolling out web services utilizing technologies including, but not limited to, C-Sharp, PowerShell, and ASP.NET.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, C-Sharp, Java, Python).
- Design, coding, problem solving, analytical and communication skills.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Adept at learning and adapting to new technologies and tools, with a focus on distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Architecting and operating the backend web services that help deliver critical software like new Windows features, security patches, and apps to billions of devices worldwide.
- Designing, implementing, and optimizing highly performant and massively scalable services.
- Involved in all phases of the lifecycle, from design to deployment and support.
- Creates and implements clean, simple, testable code with a strong emphasis on quality, maintainability, and reuse.
- 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.
- Drives quality improvements through design reviews, code reviews, modeling a growth mindset, and providing clear, constructive feedback.
Other
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
- Collaborates effectively across teams to deliver high-quality solutions from design to implementation and roll out.
- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Demonstrated commitment to Microsoft's core values and growth mindset.
