Azure Core Compute is Azure's most profitable business and is growing incredibly fast! We provide millions of virtual machines for customers to run their workloads in the cloud. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services with the scale of Bing, Skype, and SQL Azure. Customers use the power of Azure Compute to host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and solve large computational problems in seconds. Workloads range from new “born-in-the-cloud” services to traditional applications migrated from physical datacenters.

The Azure OneFleet Container and Storage team brings the industrialized container technology and premise container and storage technologies to the Azure Compute infrastructure for 1st party customers and Azure Core Control plane. We envision a unified application platform by bringing together current OneFleet control plane and industrialized open-source Infrastructure management system to manage a large-scale Azure Region or Micro Region. This position is to scale up our Azure control plane to support large scale 1st party customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, reliability, scalability, latency, security, resiliency, and efficiency of a service.
• Contribute debugging, troubleshooting complete stack of a service and drive analysis of an outage; write software and build automation to resolve problems permanently.
• Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems; assess design and code changes to drive improvements.
• Conduct periodic on call duties.

Technical passion, terrific problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently, and mentor Junior team members.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software development experience
• Strong experience with C#/Java/C/C++ and systems programming.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
• Demonstrated ability and passion for designing and building large scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
• The ability to multi-task while balancing short-term and long-term tasks is essential.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with online services / Cloud is a plus.

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.

Additional Details:

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.