Senior Software Engineer

We are required to solve some hard infrastructure management problems at very web scale with the aim of high availability and low latencies that our demanding workloads expect, around ~30ms @ 99th percentile, while optimizing the COGS.

We are targeting to have the best-in-class developer experience and DRI tooling which will increase the developer productivity and agility multifold. We strongly believe that developers should be focusing on solving their end-user problems than solving infrastructure problems.
We are envisioning exponential growth of the platform so are looking a Senior Software Engineer who loves to:
• Work on large-scale, distributed systems.
• Solve hard infrastructure problems.
• Simplify infrastructure to enable other engineers to be productive in solving their customer needs.

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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.
• 3+ years of experience design, implement and operating distributed systems.

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.

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

• Design and develop large scale cluster fleet management infrastructure to manage diverse resources with high availability, resiliency and agility.
• Framework should provide end-to-end solutioning by leveraging open source technologies with sound software engineering practices.
• Collaborate with different engineering teams across the organization to provide both the technical and operational support.
• Incorporate feedback from our partner engineering teams to drive long-term strategic improvements to the platform.
• Liaise with various Azure teams such as Compute, Networking and Azure Kubernetes Service to adopt cutting-edge features and influence the product roadmaps of Azure services.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior members of the team.