Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Azure Compute team. The role focuses on building and scaling reliable cloud infrastructure, distributed services, and microservices, including capacity management and compute billing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Passionate about solving large-scale engineering challenges and delivering high-quality, reliable services
• Comfortable working across the full technology stack with end-to-end systems perspective
• Designs solutions with a focus on availability, security, scalability, performance, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
• Leverages AI-assisted development tools and practices to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and innovation
• Uses telemetry, monitoring, and data-driven insights to continuously improve service health and customer experience
• Builds cloud-native solutions using containers, microservices, REST APIs, NoSQL databases, and Big Data technologies
• Thrives in an Agile environment with continuous delivery, rapid iteration, and weekly sprint execution

Requirements:

• 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++, C#, Java, .NET, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• 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#, Java, .NET, or Python
  • OR 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#, Java, .NET, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
• 6+ year of implementing REST APIs and micro-services
• Experience with source control and build systems
• Experience handling multiple workstreams in parallel
• Experience working on large scale distributed systems
• Experience leveraging AI and building solutions at scale