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Azure Specialized is a fast-growing team chartered to integrate mission critical workloads with Azure. The workloads we have shipped include The workloads we have shipped include AI/ML Infrastructure, Azure NetApp Files, Azure VMWare Service, Cray Supercomputer, Dedicated HSM, SAP Hana, and many more are in the pipeline. We provide end-to-end solutions in Azure to integrate with non-cloud-ready hardware and enable new services for our customers.

We are a highly impactful team with robust growth opportunities specifically focused on enabling AI/ML workloads and specialized infrastructure. If you are passionate about working in the latest areas that will help you develop skills in Networking, Cloud Platforms, and Security, this is the team you are looking for! We are a small, agile, nimble team in Azure focused on bringing the state of the art of mission-critical software into Microsoft.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Specialized, you will gain valuable experience in service architecture, datacenter networking, monitoring and security as well as working with partner teams. Our team is looking for Software Engineers to work on control and data plane enablement in network connectivity scenarios required by Azure Specialized workloads. A primary focus is designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring various product features and infrastructure. The opportunity will allow you to develop backend infrastructure supporting diverse services. The work for this position will cross many layers of Azure Networking and Azure Services, presenting unique engineering challenges. This role also offers great opportunities to work with many partner teams and gain broad exposure to control plane and data plane technologies end-to-end.

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 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

• OR related technical field AND 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 technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience

• Knowledge and Experience in developing and operating high scale, reliable online services. 

• Knowledge and Experience in developing and operating high scale, reliable online services

• Knowledge and Experience in leading migrations or upgrades in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments

• Knowledge and Experience in developing and operating high scale, reliable online services

• Knowledge and experience in Container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes

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