The Microsoft Azure cloud is a global platform that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We host services at the scale of Bing, Teams, SharePoint, and SQL Azure. Customers use the power of Azure to host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and solve large computational problems. Workloads range from "born-in-the-cloud" services to enterprise applications migrated from customer data-centers.

The One Fleet Control Plane, the kernel of the Azure cloud, is a fault-tolerant distributed system built on commodity data-center hardware. Within the One-Fleet team, the Holmes team provide dynamic resource management capabilities to Azure cloud. Holmes services improve customer availability and platform efficiency by running placement reshaping, de-fragmentation, overbooking, transparent maintenance and several other algorithms integrated together for better experience and efficiency. In this role, you will be working on highly available, and event-driven microservices to enhance customer experience, collaborating with Microsoft research, and building intelligent algorithms integrated with ML models.

If you are interested in distributed systems, if you enjoy algorithms and efficiency, if you seek opportunities for high impact on Microsoft's core business, then this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, reliability, scalability, latency, security, resiliency, and efficiency of a service.
• Contribute to debugging, troubleshooting complete stack of a service and drive analysis of an outage; write software and build automation to resolve problems permanently.
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, and system tuning.
• 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.
• Collaborate with partner teams to drive customer features and platform efficiency improvements across the One Fleet Control Plane.
• Deliver high quality of service to Azure customers through live-site excellence.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals and coding skills in C/C++
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience with C#/Java/C/C++ and systems programming.
• Fluent in multi-threaded, asynchronous and system programming
• Demonstrate ability and passion for designing and building large scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrate problem solving and debugging skills.
• The ability to multi-task while balancing short-term and long-term tasks is essential.
• Experience with machine learning, AI and online services is a big 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.

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.