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Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer in Hyderabad, India
Are you looking to make a real difference in Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Do you want to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing to design, deliver and operate cloud-scale systems that are the foundation of the World’s Computer which is Azure? Do you want to be part of a highly motivated and passionate team that works together to do what it takes for our customers to be successful while having fun and learning along the way?
Azure Core is Azure's most profitable business and growing incredibly fast! We, the Azure Core Compute team in IDC, pride ourselves in working without boundaries to deliver the cloud platform capable of running any customer application/workload. And we mean ANY! Think of any large Microsoft service; Teams, Bing, Exchange, Xbox, SQL Azure, Office 365, HDInsight, COSMOS DB…. or customers such as Accenture, Adobe, Walgreens, Walmart, Flipkart, In-Mobi and the multitude of the large/medium/small shopping, banking, finance, gaming, logistics, enterprises, data analytics/management, storage services of the world. They run on infrastructure we build.
As the owners of the platform that runs such a diversity of applications, we need to guarantee quality of service (QoS) for our customers. Metrics like uptime/availability/reliability and service performance take on a new meaning at the scale we operate. Our customers want 5 9’s+ of availability, transparent maintenance and updates to their systems, resiliency of their workloads despite hardware (H/W) and system failures that happen all the time in the datacentre, ability to deploy & dynamically scale large number of VMs/containers reliably. Ensuring the quality of service (QoS) at scale requires us to architect and build systems across all layers and we work on architectural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack (Azure Compute Manager, Azure Host OS and Host Agent, Compute Resource Provider, Azure Networking etc) to achieve the SLAs.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will help realize the vision to “Build and operate world class E-E engineering Quality systems & services that contribute to measurable improvements in the experience for our customers & ensures quality of Azure platform with zero impact to Azure Customers ”. Achieving this vision is critical for the success of the Azure platform and guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) for our customers. The focus for this role is on building the infrastructure to validate Control and Data plane Azure platform services and components, plug and play services in a production like environment and no regressions leak to customers. This is next gen infrastructure that we believe is critical for delivering a quality platform for some of our largest customers.
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.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
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+ year of experience
in building, deploying, and operating reliable systems with experience in designing distributed systems fundamentals
AND Coding and debugging skills with in-depth exposure in developing microservices,
AND engaging in site-reliability engineering practices.
Other Qualifications:
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.
Experience with or understanding of CI/CD pipelines & ADO Experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms.
Data driven approach to solving problems iteratively and measuring success.
Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence.
Ability to work with Cross functions, understand the product requirements, able to translate to technical breakdown of activities, and deliver as per the plan.
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