Be part of the datacenter management transformation! Our charter is to enable Azure to run on commodity hardware while providing the SLAs expected by our customers. At the heart of Azure sits the Fabric Controller as a kernel of the Datacenter Management operating system. At the bottom of the Fabric lies the Datacenter Manager which is responsible for efficiently managing the lifecycle of all datacenter resources and making that inventory available for hosting (internal and external) customer services.

We strive to deliver high availability and ultra-low operational costs by focusing on inventory abstraction, Datacenter health and correctness, lifecycle automation, efficiency and availability, and hardware innovation.

Datacenter Manager owns and manages all the datacenter infrastructure for Azure and is responsible for enabling/implementing scenarios at massive scale including: hardware deployment and configuration, health certification and monitoring, failure prediction, operation command and control, diagnostics and failure analysis, device (hardware/firmware) upgrade, device repair and replacement, compliance.

We’re on a mission to provide low cost compute, with high availability and fast performance guarantees to enable Enterprise/IT/CSVs (Cloud Service Vendors) to host applications and workloads in the cloud. Azure depends on us to minimize the operational cost of running the datacenters. We strive to achieve a lights out, self-managing datacenter.

Responsibilities

You are a successful engineer who will drive features for Azure datacenter configuration, management, and monitoring.

You should be comfortable producing highly available systems that operate at massive scale. You should have hands-on experience with the design and implementation of large scale, distributed systems. You are a great team player, and you can mentor junior team members with design and coding guidance.

Join us as we scale up our investment in managing datacenter infrastructure to support Microsoft’s datacenter scenarios! 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficient coding skills in Java, C#, or C/C++
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field, OR equivalent industry experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Demonstrated ability and passion for designing and building highly available distributed systems at scale
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations
• Experience with agile methodologies is a plus, a willingness to adopt them is required 

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.

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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