Senior Software Engineer

To delight our customers in a Cloud First world, Microsoft Azure cloud business delivers highly available online services with cutting edge features and innovative functionality lighting up on a regular basis. Availability, reliability, and performance are all key differentiators that customers demand and expect in cloud services when choosing a provider.  

A major factor in the quality, as experienced by our customers, is the quality of the infrastructure that is running the cloud. Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) 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.  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team!

Our team – CRC (Cloud Readiness Certified), within SCHIE, 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 h/w 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. Our work is making a real impact on millions of users! 

The candidate for this position will have excellent technical design, experience in leading the development of front-end web applications, possess excellent collaboration skills, and experience with distributed systems. Hardware or Firmware experience is a plus. We offer a team, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. 

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Rust, C++, Java, or Python 
• 4+ Year's experience developing web applications, including web APIs in C# and UX/UI in React / Typescript. 
• 4+ years demonstrated experience performing technical deep dives into service design, operating systems, networking, and/or storage systems.
• 4+ years experience working with any cloud services such as azure web apps.

Other: 

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:

• Knowledge and work experience in data mining, statistics, mathematics is a plus. 

• Demonstrated ability to perform technical deep dives into service design, operating systems, networking, and storage systems. 

• Previous knowledge of PowerShell, Bash, or other scripting languages. 

• Previous experience working with any cloud services such as azure web apps. 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 for the role until January 3, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Design, develop, and deliver software that measures and improves the quality of Azure hardware that exceeds customer expectations. 

• Obsess about customer experience. 

• Identify and fix or drive fixes for systemic issues, influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. 

• Collaborate with hardware architects and PMs to verify new Azure hardware. 

• Solve mission critical problems relating to our services by building SW automation. 

• Prototype, incubate, and pilot new initiatives as our business grows. 
• Embody our Culture and Values