Responsibilities

We are looking to delight and empower our customers to manage their cloud costs more efficiently by reducing the latency by order of magnitude from deployment to charge updates without compromising scale. We are looking to automate triage of customer reported issues and enable streaming data science algorithms to flag and detect issues. To build this, we’re expanding and looking for great developers! If you have a history of designing, owning and shipping software, then we want to talk to you. You should have a solid understanding of the software development cycle, from architecture to testing. You’ll have a passion for quality, ability to design infrastructure that is consistently every time and be a creative thinker. You’ll write secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable code, and then effectively debug it, test it and support it live. You should be comfortable owning a feature and making decisions independently. You will naturally share Microsoft’s culture and passion for growth mindset and set up for success and growth in your career.

Qualifications

• 3+ years demonstrated experience in designing and developing enterprise-level internet scale services/solutions.
• Strong design and programming skills in C# or Java.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write concise and accurate technical documentation, communicate technical ideas to non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to impact/influence engineering and project teams
• Proven track record of shipping highly-scalable and reliable services/systems
• Ability to work independently and in a team setting and be able to research innovative solutions for challenging business/technical problems

Preferred -

• Expertise and knowledge in modern engineering practices (Continuous Integration, TDD, automated deployments with integrated quality gates)
• Experience with microservices architecture and/or cloud Platforms like Windows Azure Platform, Amazon AWS, Google Apps
• Experience with Big Data/Analytic Systems like Cosmos or Hadoop implementations
• Experience in streaming platforms like Kafka, Azure Eventhub, or AWS Kinesis
• Experience or knowledge of Lambda architecture
• Experience in Machine Learning

Master or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent with related engineering experience 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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