We’re looking for engineers who are passionate in building state-of-art services that make Azure a better platform for developers. As a software engineer in the team, you’ll be able to participate in the whole lifecycle of the service development, including designing, coding, testing and running hyper-scale services in production. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of people and tackle large scale technical problems which gives you a great opportunity to impact Azure.

The role is hiring for the following locations:

• Elkridge, Maryland, United States
• Redmond, Washington, United States
• Reston, Virginia, United States 

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deliver user-friendly, state-of-the-art Azure services to provide world-class user experiences on Azure
• Work together with the team to ensure service quality, availability and reliability
• Participate in live-site and customer support to ensure customers using our services have a great experience

Qualifications

·        BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

·        1+ years of software development/design experience

Preferred: 

• Strong problem solving and communication skills, self-driven and long-term strategic thinker
• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends
• Experience and passion for building highly scalable service
• Experience in object-oriented languages (like Java or C#) and related frameworks
• Experience with cloud infrastructures like Azure or AWS is preferred
• Experience with open source tools and frameworks is a plus
• Good written and oral communication skills

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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.

Candidates must have an active US Government TS security clearance and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph), or have an active TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. 

Candidates selected for this position must comply with Federal Executive Order 14042 mandating that federal contractors and subcontractors receive the COVID-19 vaccine by being fully vaccinated before their date of hire, or work with Microsoft to receive an approved religious or medical accommodation.

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.