Microsoft Azure is undergoing explosive growth as customers around the world realize the benefits of moving services and applications to the cloud.  Microsoft Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is one of the key teams powering this explosive growth. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions.

In the CAASE development team, you will design and implement software components to enable and optimize the Azure fleet. You will help enable specialized acceleration device hardware and customized offloading hardware in our servers in partnership with multiple teams across Microsoft. The software components you deliver include system software and cloud services that monitor, deploy and maintain cutting edge acceleration H/W in the Azure fleet at massive scale. This will involve running high scale services with an always secure and livesite-first mindset.

Your experience in Cloud Service development will leverage your strong communication skills, agility, engineering mindset and knowledge of system and Cloud scale software.

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Responsibilities

• Rapid cloud scale deployment of code and monitoring of telemetry
• Design, develop and operate large scale, efficient and reliable cloud services
• Work on complex, mission critical solutions that involve multiple Azure Services and a high degree of collaboration
• Participate in on call coverage rotation, troubleshoot application issue and apply mitigations.
• Drive continuous improvement on service quality and cogs efficiency.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a great teammate.

Qualifications

Required Qualification

• Bachelors in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 3+ years of software design and development experience with C/C++
• Understand system software, operating system internals etc
• Built and shipped software including at least one product development cycle
• Developed and managed cloud or hyper scale services or infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• Development using C#, Powershell, Python
• Understanding interaction of System Software, Hardware architecture and protocols
• Experience with agile project management methodology, test driven development
• Understanding of hardware and devices, familiarity with OS health and error reporting.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, prioritize multiple strategic and tactical options, and drive issues to closure with a high quality bar

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.