Azure is at the center of enabling cloud computing for Microsoft services as well as our public cloud and edge business. The Azure development team is responsible for the design, implementation, and delivery of Azure technologies, including Compute, Networking, Storage, High Performance Computing, Engineering Systems, and many productive developer services.

This is Senior Software Engineering role in Azure's Chief Technology Officer's (AOCTO) Incubations Team. The Azure Incubations team works on cutting-edge projects across all of Microsoft Azure. This specific role focuses on developing serverless technologies, including application models, using DevOps practices and runtimes. As a software development engineer, you will work with a team to develop, build and incubate this strategic, high potential project and help mature it as a successful Azure product and open source cloud native.

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have a passion for improving the state of the art in building and deploying applications. Strong development, coding, analytical, interpersonal, and written skills are required, as this candidate must be able to build bridges between groups, community, and industry leadership. The candidate must be familiar with developer technologies including different programming languages and frameworks, along with an understanding of cloud native technologies. Knowledge and previous experience of how to build scalable, highly available public cloud services is essential for this role. In this role you will work with customers to understand practical problems facing developers today and solve those problems by building the next generation of application development technologies.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience 
• 3+ years of cloud and services experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with using cloud native technologies, DevOps practices and developer frameworks
• Proven design and coding skills
• Proven track record of demonstrating leadership principles of creating clarity, delivering success, and generating energy
• Proven software engineering experience with cross-org impact
• Experience with authoring and producing whitepapers and presentations
• Outstanding technical problem solving and debugging ability
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software.
• Experience in Golang and Linux.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes. 
• Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices. 

Interpersonal Skills:

• Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others. 
• Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units

• Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result. 
• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges. 
• A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations. 
• Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

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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.