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Do you want to be at the heart of cloud computing? The Compute team is at the core of Azure and is growing incredibly fast. We build and manage fault tolerant distributed systems on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting customer applications. The platform is at the core of Azure that provides millions of virtual machines for customers to run their workload in the cloud. Our team fosters a 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. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer and a leader passionate about delivering value to customers in mission critical environments, who enjoys a growth hacking culture, and is eager to play a part in one of the most important long games for Microsoft.
Job Responsibility:
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of service fabric services while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale
Drives development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
Take full ownership of assigned services, actively contributing to its enhancement across all cloud environments
Ensure the service maintains parity with the commercial cloud, delivering high support standards for customers
Participate in the service lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, and maintenance
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to uphold the highest standards of quality and performance
Engage in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the service's capabilities and user experience
Identify opportunities for automation and optimization within the cloud to better support customers
Design and implement automation solutions to streamline operations, reduce manual effort, and improve overall service delivery
Focus on optimizing existing systems and processes to boost performance and customer satisfaction
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph
Verification of U.S. citizenship
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
3+ years Software Engineering experience
Experience writing scripts and functional programming code to automate tasks, using languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Shell scripting
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms
Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization