Senior Software Engineer - Azure Software Defined Networking

Imagine building the world’s computer that provides unprecedented reliability and unlimited scale, an organization that empowers individuals to achieve their best and treasure grass root innovation, technology that spans machine learning, networking, operating systems, UX, security, and solutions that enable millions of customers to run their mission critical workloads with confidence. The opportunities are infinite and innovation is limited only by our own imagination.

We are part of the Azure Networking team designing, building, and operating critical services for customers. We are responsible for hybrid connectivity to enable enterprises to connect to Azure, application load balancing, secure VM access, network function virtualization, and application & network security services. At the core of these services is a solid SDN and NFV infrastructure that we continuously innovate on to improve agility, scalability, reliability, and cost effectiveness of our services.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in ExpressRoute, a service responsible to provide dedicated, ultra low latency and very high throughput Hybrid connectivity between customers on-premise and Azure and to design, build and operate services and solutions that aid diagnosability across the whole Azure Networking landscape. We own entire services end-to-end from user facing interface to management plane and all the way down to data path implementation. The developer will participate in architecture, design of various components, and ensure a timely execution of the features with high quality. The developer will own the component end-to-end, including testing, managing cross team dependencies as well as monitoring and alerting for the deployed component. The position will involve extensive internal and external collaborations with other Azure/Microsoft teams as well as networking vendors.

If you are an experienced engineer with a track record of delivering high quality distributed services, passion to build, architect a service with very high availability and reliability for critical customers and excited to operate in a startup culture while delivering with enterprise level maturity, this is a great opportunity for you to take the next step in your career. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow!

Our culture promotes diversity and inclusion. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow. We encourage you to apply to learn more!

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Required Qualifications:

• 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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of software development experience in a networking and/or distributed systems environment

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 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.

• Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
  • C#, Golang, C++
  • Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, TLS/SSL, HTTP/HTTPS)
  • Distributed Systems
  • Linux/Unix/Windows systems programming, performance optimization
  • Virtualization (hypervisors; VM switching, containers)
  • Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services
  • RESTful Services
  • Large scale telemetry gathering and analysis
  • Network packet capture analysis and debugging
• Design & Programming skills
• Experience with Container platforms and technologies (Dockers, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Networking technologies (SDN, NFV, BGP, Routing) & L4-L7 proxies (Nginx, Envoy, HAProxy)
• Experience with Security technologies (IPsec, WAF, Firewall)
• Contributions to open source software projects

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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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• Participate in software development life cycle – design, develop and test
• Participate in scalable operations – deploy, monitor, support during incidents
• Cross team collaboration
• Responsible for design, development, testing, deployment and livesite support for the service.
• Identify and improve the overall service availability, reliability, security, diagnosability, monitoring and alerting.
• Architect, design and layout the vision of the product.
• Other
  • Embody our culture and values