Senior Software Engineer

at  Microsoft

Are you a Senior Software Engineer who loves to work on large-scale projects as part of the core Azure? Are you looking for big, creative challenges that show your skills of distributed computing systems programming? Do you want to be at the core of it all, acting as a force multiplier enabling groups of engineers to do their best work? If so, we have the perfect job for you!
Azure Compute OneDeploy team enables the entire organization to deploy billions of changes on millions of hosts across the Azure fleet with using various cutting edge technologies in the Software and Hardware. Our work is key to accelerating innovation in the Cloud and provides a multiplier effect for the entire company by delivering smart infrastructure for everyone to use. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join us in the Azure Compute OneDeploy team. We offer you a talented team and culture that invests in new technologies and in our people for the long term. While we design as a platform, we ship constantly in an incremental fashion. Emphasis is on long-term design, incremental development with high quality, and adapting to early customer feedback.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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.
• 4+ years of experience in at least one of the following areas: large scale internet applications, operating system kernels, distributed systems, client/server and multitier architecture, asynchronous and multi-threaded programming, full stack development.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Industrial experience on user interfaces, tools, and cloud services.
• Experience running and working on services at scale.
  Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
  Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the 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.
• 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 products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.