Senior Software Engineer

The Azure Arc team is connecting the rest of the world's computing power to Azure. As Azure Arc team, we enable Azure management of multi-cloud resources which can be across any Edge platforms or any other public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Provider etc.   

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Arc, you will be working with a highly collaborative team and contributing across the stack, from the agents running on Kubernetes clusters to the high-scale, globally distributed cloud services. You’ll integrate with other Azure services and create solutions using C#, Go, Kubernetes, Linux and open-source technologies. 

You’ll be empowered to have end-to-end ownership for your areas including architecture, design, code, test, and telemetry coverage. As a technical leader on the team, you'll also have the opportunity to review your peers' work and mentor early in career engineers. This is an opportunity to collaborate with various teams and disciplines to deliver results that delight our customers, to expand your knowledge and accelerate your career growth. 

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.

By applying to this U.S. based position, while remote work is possible, relocation does not apply/is not provided for the role.

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#, Java, Golang or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems 

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#, Java, Golang 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#, Java, Golang or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 

• Prior experience or competent knowledge in developing and maintaining cloud services hosted in Azure, or other similar Cloud platforms. 
• Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices. 

• Knowledge of other cloud providers like AWS and GCP

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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• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale  

Other:

• Embody our Culture and Values