Software Engineer – Agriculture (MCI)

Azure is the fastest growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. Azure differentiates itself as the only hyper-scale, enterprise-grade Cloud that has a true hybrid story.    

Building on Azure’s success as a horizontal platform, Microsoft Cloud For Industry is driving industry-specific conversations with our customers helping digitally transform their vertically specialized customer experiences, operational processes, products, and partners integrations. The Microsoft Cloud For Industry group focuses on building Azure capabilities for key industries like Precision Agriculture, Retail/E-commerce, Energy (Oil & Gas, Carbon Management, Power and Utilities), Financial Services, etc. with a tremendous potential for the adoption of public cloud.  

With Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, we are leading digital transformation in the agriculture industry – enabling partners and customers to build digital agronomy solutions leveraging the power of Microsoft’s Intelligent Data Platform and Azure.   

We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer keen on building a distributed platform for ingestion, processing, and geospatial analysis of agronomic data. Familiarity with data engineering, analytics and geospatial processing are a plus. We expect passion for design, coding, debugging, coupled with engineering rigor and efficiency in building features of high quality.  

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s/master's in computer science or related field.  
• 2+ year(s) experience in hands-on software development using languages such as C#, Java or Python.  
• 2+ year(s) technical engineering experience with designing, implementing, debugging and launching commercial software products or web services.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Previous experience with web services, storage, cloud computing, and large-scale systems.  
• Experience with data engineering and analytics using frameworks such as Apache Spark. 
• Understanding of modern cloud native application development and infrastructure using containers, microservices orchestration using Kubernetes etc. 

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.

This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility. You will collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key customer solutions and the technology to support them.    

• Demonstrate strong individual contributions towards understanding, designing and implementing capabilities in a large distributed cloud-native software environment.  
• Be part of an effective and agile development organization using industry leading best practices.    
• Understand requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.    
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.  
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.    

• Demonstrate customer obsession, passion for technology & strong analytical skills 
• Embody our culture and values  

We believe in enabling our team members to unlock their highest potential and invest a lot in building a collaborative and agile culture to achieve our business success.