Software Engineer - Azure Core Compute Control Plane Team

As a Software Engineer on our team, you will be responsible for developing systems focused on Quality and Fundamentals to create highly reliable products that operate on millions of machines. You will collaborate across the organization to meet the continuously evolving customer needs while ensuring that the Microsoft Azure platform is operating with high reliability and availability. You will have opportunities to learn new technologies and the freedom to ideate, create and provide thought leadership in bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices and tremendous opportunities to grow into a senior technical leader in the organization.
If you’ve dreamed of making global impact and love creating value for customers while also having fun in a globally distributed, culturally diverse team, come talk to us today!

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Responsibilities

• Develops systems and frameworks to enhance the quality and fundamentals of the systems. Utilizes AI technology and advanced telemetry to generate insights and improve the overall quality of the product.
• 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.
• Creates 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.

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in C++, C#, and/or Java, 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• Professional and/or academic experience in distributed systems, cloud computing, and/or cloud infrastructure. 
• Professional and/or academic experience with .NET and/or Git. 

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in C++, C#, or Java, 
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in C++, C#, or Java, 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• Experience with improving service operations or engineering quality and fundamentals.
• Experience in building system software that runs on Windows and/or Linux systems.