Azure Compute is Azure's most profitable business and is growing incredibly fast! We provide millions of virtual machines for customers to run their workload in the cloud. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services with the scale of Bing/Skype/AzureStore/SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and allow solving large computational problems in seconds.

Azure Compute team is the “kernel” of Microsoft’s Cloud OS.  The Azure Computer Manager is the “kernel” of the Microsoft Compute Cloud. We build a fault tolerant distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual servers. We create an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

The team is working on few different areas that you can have a big impact. This includes:

Projects improving cluster scale and density- this includes capabilities and mechanisms for large service footprints, managing 20x more physical machines and services than it does today, schemes to improve VM density, reducing cluster fragmentation, increase utilization of compute cores; expanding azure capabilities for containers (Docker/Hyper-V Containers), etc. We are building a set of highly scalable, highly available, micro services that will be the next generation of the Compute Fabric and provide service management for all azure compute services.

Projects involving end customer service uptime and availability - applying and building machine learning to build a 'Smarter' kernel that can be adaptive to events in the datacenter and services to decide on actions - especially when needed to increase service availability and uptime. We are also working with Windows and Hyper-V on Live Migration and its capabilities into the Azure platform.

Projects around service reliability and performance - provide extremely reliable and fast on-demand compute instances irrespective of the size and scale of the service (multiple orders of magnitude faster than today). We are working on architectural and structural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack (Azure Compute Manager, Azure Host OS and Host Agent, Compute Resource Provider, Azure Networking etc). The team in working on a few different areas that will have reduce deployment times to surpass our competition. The approach here is multipronged. It involves algorithmic investments, deep involved architectural/protocol changes to improve parallelization or eliminate steps in the workflow and finally smart innovative solutions to pre-process as much of the work as possible and to be able to do the remaining in seconds to get VM ready for customers.

We are a result-oriented team working vertically through the whole stack to deliver order of magnitude improvements. To be successful, you will need strong technical knowledge, expertise in building and shipping large scale projects, strong collaboration skills, ability to wear multiple hats and a strong drive for results.

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

Responsibilities

A successful candidate will need to look at the e2e architecture and drive innovations to help improve the experience for our customers working closely with other team members and multiple organizations in Azure. Some of the basic responsibilities include:

Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions​

System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions​

Ensure that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable​

Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered​

Participate in 24x7 on call rotations to provide Livesite support for Azure customers worldwide.

Qualifications

Required:

5+ years of professional software engineering experience using C#/Java/C/C++.

3+ years of experience working on distributed systems and building microservices for cloud services

Proven experience on taking complex problems, creating clarity, scoping, and breaking into incremental deliverables to light up e2e scenarios while keeping stakeholders up to date along the way

Proven cross-team and cross-discipline collaboration experience to generate energy, drive design, and complete delivery of e2e scenarios for shared success

Ability to provide technical mentorship to junior team members to contribute to the delivery of e2e scenarios and to enhance their learning and growth

Relentless passion and drive for profound impact and for quality of e2e scenarios

The ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long-term needs is essential.

Ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success

Ability to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field, OR equivalent industry experience  

Preferred:

Knowledge of .NET, C#, and associated toolset/frameworks.

Excellent customer and partner focus - able to understand their needs through a data driven approach​

Ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment is critical to success

Strong software design and development, debugging, testing and problem-solving skills

Experience with online services and machine learning/ AI - a big plus

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.