Azure Virtual Network Team is a core team of Azure Networking responsible for Software Defined Networking (SDN).
If you ever wanted to join Cloud and learn about Distributed Systems, there is no better place than this team. We own services that runs on every single Azure Node (over 10+ million nodes across the globe).

We work with all platforms: Windows, Linux.
Both control plane and data plane services.
We Design highly scalable Distributed Systems, Sharding, Algorithm Optimization, etc.
Work with lots of partner teams across entire Azure as well as external customers

All our features are available externally and customer facing (Azure Virtual Networks, Azure VNET Peering, Azure Private Link, etc.).

Huge impact! Highly capable and strong management! Very strong team!

Bring your expertise and ability to drive huge features with huge impact!
Join us to help build the most secure and most performant and scalable cloud!

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for developing or testing computer software applications, systems or services. Evaluate requirements, estimate development costs, design and implement the software, review the design and implementation, improve the development process, perform unit testing, communicate status, analyze risks and compromises, integrate software into a larger system, or diagnose and resolve issues. Work on specific software features or sections of code under supervision. May be assigned to various projects that utilize the required technical skills to deploy successful product releases, from early product definition and scoping to detailed specification, implementation and roll-out phases.

By joining this team, you will gain valuable experience in writing software that runs at massive scale, works as a world-wide distributed system, and survives any fault thrown at it.  We are looking for excellent software engineers that want to learn more about cloud-scale networking.  Example challenges include: creating software-defined networks; building architectures that collect information from network switches and servers, rapidly analyze them, and then orchestrate repair actions; evaluating new network device features and performance; validating the health of network devices; system performance and scale evaluation; and Linux and Windows kernel programming. 

Qualifications

Required skills: 

• 5+ years of experience in software development

• 5+ years of experience in C#/Java or C/C++. 

Preferred skills:

•  Demonstrated abilities to learn quickly, design efficiently, and write solid code.

•   Fluency in several programming languages and ability to quickly learn new ones. 
•   Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and take initiative. 
•   Passion and drive for world-changing impact. 
•   BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

•   Experience with networking, distributed systems, or system-level programming. 

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.