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Responsibilities

This highly visible role will have you working closely with other disciplines including, software engineers, program managers, partners, business groups, and data center engineering teams. You will need an excellent combination of relevant technological knowledge, cross-group collaboration skills, communication and negotiation skills, relationship-building skills, and planning skills. You will also need a sense of urgency to get things done efficiently-working both independently and as part of a team. You understand the need for implementing and following processes across the service ecosystem.

• As a Service engineer you will be responsible for planning, project management, documenting processes, developing specs, and providing status updates on all release-to-web activities.
• Plan, design and drive operability requirements, standards, processes, and practices.
• Release and deploy: deploy and run services in production.
• Operate (and optimize): ensure data delivery and customer satisfaction with an eye on improving operational practices and procedures.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or master's degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline and will have a minimum of one quarter, semester, or term to complete after finishing an internship.
• Extensive programming experience in one or more of the following: C/C++, C#, Java, Python, PowerShell, Perl, Batch, HTML, Win32.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Large scale systems design experience with knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Knowledge of database design and SQL, TCP/IP, and network programming is a plus.
• Research experience in algorithms, architecture, database, data mining, distributed systems, machine learning, networking, or systems preferred.

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