JD - To delight customers in a Cloud First world, Microsoft delivers highly available online services with cutting edge features and innovative functionality lighting up on a regular basis. Quality of service (QoS) is paramount as we continue to make deep investment in Microsoft Azure and its expanding customer base who rely on our services to run their diverse businesses. Availability, reliability, and performance are all key differentiators that customers demand and expect in cloud services when choosing a provider. We are investing in technology for an extensible platform enabling compliant management of production services and resources. This platform allows you to plug in live site operations to Azure’s authorization and auditing system to ensure safe and secure control of Azure services. In addition, services can choose to expose selected operations to support operations teams to enable faster resolution of customer issues within services. Proper controls on production access are critical to having a safe, secure, and complaint cloud for Azure customers.
This role is to work as a senior member of a small engineering team. Your work will be high impact with initial delivery in less than 6 months. Great core development skills are a must have and we also strongly prefer candidates who have expertise in the areas of building extensible high scale service platforms. You will be a Key IC on the team who will own the implementation and full lifecycle of large portions of the solution in C#.
Responsibilities:
Effectively collaborate across Azure/C&E/first party teams to ensure the projects design will meet the needs of all Azure engineers
Collaborate on the design of the overall service with a strong preference for service reliability and automated troubleshooting.
Extensive development and unit testing in C#
Research, architect, develop and deliver solutions in an agile development environment.
At least 7 years of experience as a software engineer, coding an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C#, or C++ --Most important and .NET on the backend. Not looking for web developers as this role is more mid to back end development.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent
At least 7 years of experience as a software engineer, coding an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C#, or C++
communications skills, both verbal and written.
Willingness to work in an on-call schedule
Preferred Qualifications:
Great design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence
Demonstrable ability to own and deliver projects and results of increasing technical complexity
Focused on writing high quality code and demonstrated use of test automation to ensure said quality
Excellent
Knowledge and proven experience designing, developing, and operating large scale internet-scale services
Genuine interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Extensive knowledge and experience designing for operability
Systematic problem-solving approach
Demonstrated ability to communicate business and technical ideas to varied audiences across disciplines, including peer engineers, product managers and management
Strong ownership, urgency, and drive to launch services
Ability to debug and optimize code, and automate routine tasks
Must have active Top-Secret clearance.