Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer II in Azure Networking, you will gain marketable experience in massive scale data centre network architecture, design, network infrastructure automatic management, software defined networking and high scalable/available/reliable distributed service design/implementation.

Microsoft Azure is expanding its team in Australia and is looking for dynamic individuals to work in various service devops teams. The ideal candidate would be adaptable and able to become a subject matter expert across a variety of services and systems throughout their career.

The team develops and operates highly scalable software supporting Azure Networking including automations that maintain the configuration of our network. Many software engineers are involved in all aspects of the life cycle including software design, implementation, deployment and operations. Others are involved in advanced monitoring, analysis, and alerting for security events.

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Required Qualifications:

• You have at least  3 - 4  years + experience working at high-paced environment in a software engineering role 
• Technical engineering experience and proficency coding in at least one language including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Golang, JavaScript, or Python
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field OR equivalent experience / courses 
• Excellent communications skills and ability to work collaboratively across several teams and excellent problem-solving skills with ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep.
• Great curiosity and willingness to question. High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment
• Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge about highly reliable distributed system, micro service, service fabric, Azure Devops, Redis, Bootstrap
• Be familiar with common network protocols, such as TCP, BGP, IP routing, IPv6 etc., experience on networking router configuration
• Technical passion and terrific problem-solving skills to drive for result and impact
• Any experience with network security

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.

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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• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• To be able to identify root causes of network issues and system performance bottlenecks, propose simple and implementable technical solutions and actively reach out to customers to solve their pain points.