Software Development Engineer

at  Microsoft

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is a fast-growing R&D organization that designs, engineers and qualifies the entire cloud-optimized infrastructure, including advanced Compute and Storage server technology that push the technological.
Our team – Cloud Readiness Certified (CRC), within CHIE, drives the hardware, firmware and infrastructure software validation lifecycle and is accountable for the quality experience of our cloud customers. Our goal is to exceed customer expectations in every aspect related to infrastructure quality. Therefore, we invest heavily in automating the validation processes, from the inception and throughout the entire hardware lifecycle. We invest in systems that continuously monitor the hardware quality in production, predict hardware failures, detect behavioral anomalies and mitigate issues before they impact customers. Our mission is to ensure a consistent high quality of production hardware through automation and smart engineering that can scale as fast as the cloud business grows.

WE ARE HIRING AN EXPERIENCED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER.

The candidate for this position will have excellent scripting development skills, experience with cloud hardware infrastructure, and overall system engineering. This job requires collaboration skills, with both internal teams and external partners. The ideal candidate will need to collaborate on a deep technical level with other organizations in Azure, and drive changes into the live site cloud systems to enable effective and safe testing in production.
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REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.
  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:

• Accountability and ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle.
• Capable of technical deep dives into service design, operating systems, networking, and storage.
• Experience with defining and measuring customer SLA’s.
• Experience with development in a modern programming language (e.g., C#)
  Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 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 $120,900 - $198,600 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
  Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

• Fostering and maintaining a customer-obsessed culture.
• Collaborating with hardware architects to determine key components and end to end verifications.
• Designing, developing, and delivering software that measures and improves HW quality at scale.
• Mentoring peers to ensure engineering best practices are code is held at a high-quality bar.
• Solving complex problems, identifying, and driving solutions for systemic issues, creating new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems
• Championing a ‘can do’ attitude across the org.
• Other:
• Embody our culture and values.