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
On this team, our day to day job involves working on some of the toughest and coolest distributed challenges.
- 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
- BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent industry experience
- 4+ years of software development experience using C#, Java, C++, or C or 7+ 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.
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Experience operating and troubleshooting multi-tiered services (eg: web server, database server, transaction server)
- Strong experience with scripting and automation of routine tasks
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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