The Azure Front Door and DNS team is looking for a Senior Software engineer to design and implement globally distributed, scalable and low latency services which offer DNS, application acceleration, and service protection to our critical customers such as Office 365, Xbox, Azure services, and 3rd party customers. Our mission is to delight our customers by providing DNS solutions and features for both public and private, on-premises zones as well as offer HTTP level CDN, Global Load balancing and WAF protection against DoS and other threats to enable them to maintain high availability and consistency for their workloads.  

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#). 

Responsibilities

We are looking for a developer who will work with a team of peers to maintain the engineering culture where a single engineer wears all the hats necessary to design, implement, validate and release great features on several of our critical components. The components that you will be working on span our portal, scalable restful API layer built on top of geo-replicated data stores and health monitoring that helps build self-healing systems.  

You will provide technical, end-to-end leadership to the projects that you are a part of and mentor/coach other engineers to drive our high achieving, collaborative, and friendly team 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

Requirements: 

• BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experiences. 
• 5+ years of software development experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Drive for delivering high quality implementations and designs while also working on testing and operational aspects of the service as well.   
• Expert programming experience in one of C, C++, C# or Java. 

• 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 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. 

 By applying to this position, you are being considered for multiple like positions. Position specifics, including hiring team, location and position details, will be determined during the interview process.

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