Passionate to work on the Intelligent Edge Platform that powers the naming, application delivery, acceleration, security, load management and Internet routing for Microsoft (Bing, Office, XBOX,  ..), LinkedIN, Azure and many more. Opportunity to impact and innovate on critical services at internet scale through solving challenging distributed, scale and availability problems, while innovating on new Internet technologies. 

 

The Azure Front Door and Naming team is looking for an experienced engineering leader, with strong engineering background and technical depth, great curiosity, high enthusiasm, integrity, and results oriented. If you are passionate about building highly critical dial tone services, which powers nearly all of Internet facing services in Microsoft, Azure and beyond, we want to hear from you.

We collaborate closely within our team and other product teams at Microsoft to ensure we’re maximizing efficiency and deploying highly instrumented code to generate metrics across millions of requests/sec and records from thousands of servers located around the globe. We embrace Open Source (both using and contributing), cross platform (Windows/Linux), and develop across languages (C/C++/C#, GoLang, Python ).

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

• Innovate, drive vision and deliver on critical components for AFDN
• Enable high scale critical services with 100% SLA for Microsoft and beyond.
• Provide technical, end-to-end leadership for the team and charter.
• Mentor and coach other engineers to drive our collaborative and passionate team culture 
• Grow and nurture the team with true Microsoft principles and culture.

In our work environment, you will find very friendly co-workers eager to welcome you to the team and help you along the way. We foster and reward collaboration as a key part of our culture and we look forward to meeting you! 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of software development experience (industry or academia) 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Drive for delivering high quality and scale services.
• Experience in managing services with high SLA requirements and livesite criticality.   
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including cross-group. 
• Technical leadership experience in designing and running fault tolerant infrastructure services that run globally in a large scale is a plus. 
• Experience in hiring and building a team
• Experience in any of the following areas is a plus: DNS protocol, large scale web applications, SQL/No-SQL databases and asynchronous programming models. 

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.