The Common Building Block’s charter is to provide high quality components, services, and SDKs that can operate at hyper-scale.  Azure service teams will depend on these components and services for common functionality, enabling these teams to focus on creating best of breed services.  

The Common Building Block’s team goal is to empower Azure teams to manage and operate high quality planetary-scale services, safely and securely. We work closely with the Azure Offices of the CTO to identify areas of need, best of breed solutions, and create partnerships across Microsoft. The team is a strong proponent of inner source, encouraging and fostering contributions to our platform.  Providing components and services at hyper scale high efficiency, consistency and reliability is a complex challenge. Our team builds a set of core foundational services enabling Azure teams to make their service development simpler, conforming and staying up to date to best practices.

As the Azure footprint is expanding across the geography, it is imperative to have Azure services scale 10x in terms of efficiency and automation. We are developing services and components that meet these goals and enable teams services while maintaining high reliability of systems and services across Azure. Given the growth of Azure and the challenges ahead of us, we are looking to centralize and standardize key functionality large parts of our platform to enable all of Azure to scale up. You will have the opportunity to learn from and create solutions with senior technical leaders across Azure.

If you are interested in building scalable services, if you thrive on solving tough problems, if you are passionate to try new technologies and want to be a part of a big bet for our company’s success this is the position you are looking for! 

Both Remote work and Onsite candidates will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across Azure to develop platforms that help deliver insights and automation to simplify the complex world of managing planetary scale. 
• Communicate effectively and partner well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from ideas to production code.
• Work in a world class engineering team with a senior team of engineers, architects, and leadership; a set of peers and mentors that will help you grow.
• Write exemplary code working with large scale distributed systems with quality, simplicity, and maintainability as core tenets. 
• Be a role model for open, honest and inclusive approach to problem solving and mentor junior team members.
• Broaden your engineering horizons as you continuously learn new technologies and gain understanding of problem areas across the spectrum of Azure services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on software design and coding experience.
• 2+years of experience developing, deploying, and monitoring cloud services.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success as a contributor in large, complex projects.
• Solid design and coding skills with a bias for highly scalable solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work across teams.  
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS or similar cloud computing platforms is preferred.   
• Prior experience working on C#, Java or similar.  
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.

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 Screen: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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