We are the Azure Pricing, Rating and Orders team. Our team enables Azure customers to use Azure Services, enable them to pay only for what they use and understand their infrastructure costs. We operate an infrastructure that handles 100s of billions of usage events per month. Our infrastructure is high scale, financially compliant, performant big data environment that produces multiple refreshes per day of charges for our customers based on their current usage of Azure Services. Since we occupy one of the uniquely central function for Azure Services, we have some unique responsibilities both internally to other Azure Services and externally for the end customers. We enable our internal partners in Azure services to find issues early with anomaly detection and daily updates to the financial reporting. We work to provide transparency to charges, ways to debug and triage customer issues quickly and efficiently. With this scale and reach you’ll find the opportunity to make an impact on Microsoft’s bottom-line directly as we process a significant portion of Microsoft’s revenue.

We are looking to delight and empower our customers to manage their cloud costs more efficiently by reducing the latency by order of magnitude from deployment to charge updates without compromising scale. We are looking to automate triage of customer reported issues and enable streaming data science algorithms to flag and detect issues. We need to be able to support complex and rapidly evolving pricing models to power business growth. To build and enable all of this, we’re expanding and looking for great developers! If you have a history of designing, owning and shipping software, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Drive long-term architecture and detailed design for a highly reliable & scalable distributed, low latency pricing and rating system.

• Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as guiding principles.

• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach spanning many teams across geographies

• Own and drive large critical feature areas including establishing functionality, stages and costing, work with multiple stake holders across the company and land design and architecture.

• Drive the implementation of the solution across multiple engineers, ensuring compliant, scalable, reliable and well tested code with good quality monitoring, telemetry and supportability.

• Establish and drive adoption of good coding standards and patterns.

• Evalute and recommend new technologies that take the business to the next level.

• Drive up the ease of livesite supportability in a compliant manner.

• Build a strong inclusive team by hiring, mentoring and developing engineers across all levels.

• Share Microsoft’s culture and passion for growth mindset.

Qualifications

• 10+ years demonstrated experience in designing and developing enterprise-level internet scale services/solutions.

• 5+ years of demonstrated programming skills in C#, Java or other OO language with passion for code quality and service robustness.

• Master or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (preferrably Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications 

• Expertise and knowledge in modern engineering practices (Continuous Integration, TDD, automated deployments with integrated quality gates)

• Experience with microservices architecture and/or cloud Platforms like Windows Azure Platform, Amazon AWS, Google Apps

• Experience with Big Data/Analytic Systems like Cosmos or Hadoop implementations

• Experience in streaming platforms like Kafka, Azure EventHub, or AWS Kinesis

• Experience in Machine Learning

• Expertise with building REST APIs

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write concise and accurate technical documentation, communicate technical ideas to non-technical audiences.

• Experience collaborating across teams to deliver complete and cohesive features and end-to-end experiences, on time.

• Experience implementing and driving complex solutions through a team of engineers

• Demonstrated ability to impact/influence engineering and project teams

• Proven track record of shipping highly scalable and reliable services/systems

• 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.  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.