The Azure Networking team continues to innovate across the stack, pushing new scale and features into the cloud and desktop platforms while transforming our infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the 200-plus Microsoft online services, including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and several hundred thousand customers using Azure to host and run their Cloud Services in over 100 datacenters, running millions of servers and edge computing nodes all over the world.  Our teams work on the breadth of networking offerings (Networking hardware, optical and IP networks that span subsea, terrestrial and metro fiber, Hybrid services enabling VPN and MPLS connectivity from customers on premise network to our cloud, Edge services enabling optimized peering and routing, SDN products to enable customers to run their on-premise services in the cloud with Vnet, Load Balancer, Security Groups and Services, Application Gateways, Virtual Appliances to easily mimic on-premise architectures, and DNS services to reach and traffic manage services. 

The Azure Front Door group, within Azure Networking, delivers a geographically-distributed internet-facing set of services that provide acceleration, caching and highly customizable traffic processing. This is an all-encompassing charter that includes the building of Content Delivery Network (CDN), Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA), Audio Video streaming acceleration, advanced load balancing & rapid failover, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and many other cool technologies. Azure Front Door enables our customers to take a simple backend HTTP application and expose it to the world such that the app has global footprint, low-latency, high-throughput, super-scale, fault-tolerance, security, easy management, and reduced load on the customer backend. Azure Front Door accelerates some of the largest services in the world (e.g., Bing, Outlook, Windows Update, etc).

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for developing and operating the traffic processing core. You will write and operate code that is super-scale but lightweight, low-level but maintainable, and efficient but reliable. You will design and implement rich features while optimizing compute and memory overhead, pushing gigabits of throughput, and thousands of requests per second.

Your work will be critical to every Azure Front Door service. The outcome will directly impact new business opportunities for Azure. You will have the opportunity to work in a broad range of technical areas, and across component teams inside Microsoft Azure, and within the Cloud & Enterprise division.  

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Mastery of data structures & algorithms
• Reliable, high-quality and high-performance software development

Experience and Qualification:

• Five year of software development experience (academic or professional).
• Detail oriented design, coding, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Superb technical know-how, ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep in new focus areas.
• Proven strong design and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Great cross group collaboration skills.
• Passion and drive for profound impact and drive quality
• Experience networking and distributed systems
• BS or MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experiences

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.