We have numerous exciting opportunities at different levels across different areas to grow the capabilities and scale of our platform by orders of magnitude. The engineers have opportunity to do deep distributed systems development while also being able to influence scenarios and work with customers. We work at a fast pace with a focus on shipping early and iterating. Our team fosters collaborative environment and builds upon each other’s ideas, to deliver world-class customer value at a rapid pace. We empower engineers to deliver creative solutions through bottoms-up innovation. This is a fun environment and a great opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft and extremely relevant in the industry.
Responsibilities
In the team, our day to day job involves working on some of the toughest and coolest distributed challenges like:
- Expected to participate in rotation for being available to troubleshoot issues for ad-hoc service escalations with the rest of the team.
- Supports customer and other Azure services (PaaS and SaaS) and with highly available computing
- Develop software and procedures to automate manual error prone tasks and validate configurations of builds that could lead service outages
- Contribute and exercise business continuity and disaster recovery plans and procedures
Qualifications
Clearance Qualifications:
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:
- Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements
- Candidates must have an active TS and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
- Bachelors degree is required
- 8+ years of software development experience using C#, Java, C++, or C or 10+ years engineering, consulting, systems or IT experience
- Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded, asynchronous programming
- Strong understanding of HTTP and related internet protocols
- Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting multi-tiered services (eg: web server, database server, transaction server)
- Strong experience with scripting and automation of routine
- Specializations like SQL, PKI or Zookeeper are a bonus
- Experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming preferred.
- Experience building and operating scalable distributed systems highly preferred
- Strong knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, switching and routing hardware and protocols preferred
- Datacenter experience a plus
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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