Software Engineer - Azure Core

Microsoft’s Azure teams are responsible for developing, managing, and maintaining the Azure cloud computing platform. Multiple Azure teams are looking for skilled Software Engineers who are searching for a challenge to design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed systems in an agile environment. We embody an engineering mindset that places immense value on building tech that is extremely reliable, highly performant, and vastly scalable; moreover, we strive to create a work environment in which you will find very friendly co-workers who are always ready to help you along the way. 

We innovate to build, operate, and optimize the network & infrastructure that supports billions of people every day. This supports all kinds of workloads, from traditional enterprise, and mission-critical, to modern workloads born in the cloud. We exist to provide the platform of choice for everyone, meeting customers where they are today and paving the way for the cloud of choice in the future. We don’t just provide technology. We provide possibilities.  

Our culture promotes diversity and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all of the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure, and offers a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow. We encourage you to apply to learn more! 

At the European Development Centre (EDC), Microsoft Engineering in Ireland has multiple positions open to be hired across different teams.  As a Software Engineer at Microsoft Ireland, you will develop solutions used by billions of people around the world. With teams working on Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Entra, Teams, OneDrive & SharePoint, Office, and Havok, there is no limit to what you can achieve here. 

You can learn more about our Dublin Engineering Development Centre here

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/engineering   

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/engineering/Life   

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or equivalent industry experience. 
• Demonstratable software engineering fundamentals.  
• Experience with one or more Object Oriented Programming language including but not limited to: Java, Python, Rust, C/C++, C#. 
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, programming, asynchronous & multithreaded designs. 
• Experience with building scalable and distributed cloud services. 

• Experience in one or more of the following areas is a positive:  

• Golang 
• gRPC 
• Linux/Unix/Windows systems programming 
• Distributed Systems 
• Virtualization (hypervisors; VM switching), performance optimization 
• Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services 
• RESTful Services 
• Large scale web applications
• L7 data plane
• Distributed control plane asynchronous programming model
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes or other Cloud Native technologies.
• Experience with ci/cd tools and processes, for example, but not limited to Azure DevOps, GitHub or GitLab.

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.

As a Software Engineer in the Azure team you will:   

• Work with Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver compelling sets of features. 
• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.   
• Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production services.  
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.   
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.  
• Expose test coverage issues, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.   
• Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses. 
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach. 
• Some teams, based on business needs, may need your participation in an on-call rota.