Senior Software Engineer

The Azure Redis Cache team provides customers with secure, dedicated Redis cache endpoints, exposed as a service, managed by Microsoft Azure. The service has seen rapid growth since its inception and is a critical component in cloud-native application development. 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be working on technologies, both proprietary and open source. We are a growing team that cares deeply about investing in our engineers along with our product. We prioritize collaboration, technical growth, and maintaining an inclusive and positive work environment. 

The problems we are trying to solve are both interesting and challenging: building a reliable, highly-available and performant in-memory data store that is simple, cheap to operate and easy to use with rich server-side APIs and capabilities and robust, developer-friendly client experiences.We manage a very large number of resources in Azure, so come ready to work at cloud scale while maintaining a small-team environment!

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/Minimum 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
• 2+ years experience of cloud service development

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 thereafte

Additional or Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with building testable, distributed and highly scalable online services on Azure or similar cloud platform 
• Familiarity with Linux and git
• Detail oriented design, coding, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Open Source Software development
• Ability to drive technical decisions across teams

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 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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• You will work with other engineers in the team, as well as our partner, Redis Inc, to deliver offerings of open source Redis alongside Redis Inc’s Enterprise Redis software.
• You will provide Azure customers with popular Redis modules including RediSearch, RedisBloom, and RedisTimeSeries and High Availablity capabilities of Active-Active Geo-Replication configurations, integrated with various Azure management capabilities including Managed Identity and Microsoft Entra ID.
• You will participate in building end-2-end customer experiences including the Azure portal, management and runtime client libraries, and integrations with other Azure services like Azure App Service and Cosmos DB.  
• You will work with multiple partner teams, deploy on a large scale all around the world and help customers achieve a very low-latency cache for their apps and services. The software you build will help run some of the most important services running in Microsoft.
• You will be part of a talented team where learning from peers and growing as a team is a core theme.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values