Senior Software Engineer

M365's COSMIC team designs, builds, and operates a global scale managed-runtime environment based on Azure Kubernetes Service for the benefit of Microsoft service teams and developers. COSMIC could be compared to a ‘Kubernetes PaaS’. 

COSMIC’s Engineering Excellence charter aims to improve developers’ productivity, happiness, and effectiveness. Our charter builds and maintains solutions that enable engineering teams to focus on their own scenarios and business requirements rather than scaffolding. Our charter's remit is broad: from autonomous continuous delivery, through Observability, to runtime configuration management that enables service owners to reconfigure their services without redeployment. 

You will take on wide range of challenges. And you will have access to technical subject matter experts, world-class engineers, and architects for guidance and collaboration. These projects provide exciting technical challenges and career growth opportunities. Your key partners and collaborators are distributed across different global regions. 

We are looking for proactive Senior Software Engineers based anywhere within Czechia to help us build new solutions and extend COSMIC’s Engineering Excellence charter with the adoption of new technologies, adding features and continue to improve quality and resilience for different scenarios. Ideally leveraging Azure resources for faster iterations. Experience with Kubernetes and Linux are a bonus. 

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.

Required Qualificatons:

• 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, Go, Rust or Python  
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g. 6+ years of programming experience in C#, Java, C++, or Go).

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:

• 2+ years of experience with Linux and Kubernetes runtime management and monitoring (e.g. k8s for PaaS). 
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver widely impactful initiatives.  
• A self-starting problem-solver who thrives on resolving complex challenges through independent research and experimentation. 
• Familiar with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code concepts. 

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. 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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• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform. Identifies other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's own system may provide support to others.  
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Ensures appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value are incorporated.
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Reviews fellow team member's code to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area. Applies feedback to current and future iterations.
• Drives creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, and interprets results from experimentation.