Senior Software Engineering

Are you a customer-obsessed AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive collaborative global team The Azure CXP team s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality security and reliability Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work We are customer-obsessed problem-solvers We orchestrate deep engagements in areas like incident management support and enablement We analyze and amplify those customer voices both within our own team and across the Cloud AI team bringing the customer connection to the Quality vision for Azure We innovate ways to scale what we learn across our customer base Diversity and inclusion are central to who we are how we work and what we enable our customers to achieve We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering our team to show up authentically work in ways that are best for them and achieve their career goals Azure Reliability team is a multidisciplinary engineering organization part of CXP dedicated to making Azure the safest and most reliable Cloud We are the Azure Reliability team a multidisciplinary engineering organization committed to making Azure the world s safest and most reliable cloud For Azure s most critical services and products we apply a Site Reliability Engineering SRE approach Our software engineers work closely with product teams to enhance availability reliability observability and operability across our planet-scale systems We prioritize long-term platform improvements through engineering over repetitive manual tasks Increasingly we leverage AI to amplify our ability to scale reliability across Azure Our teams contribute to product architecture share knowledge and code and focus on building reusable solutions that benefit multiple teams and services As the SRE discipline evolves we continuously learn from industry peers and contribute to its advancement by innovating within our group and sharing our insights publicly Our team brings diverse professional backgrounds both traditional and non-traditional and we re committed to growing diversity We believe that an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe to contribute leads to better teams better products and a better workplace We re not looking for people who know it all we re looking for those eager to learn it all If you thrive on collaboration embrace challenges and see mistakes as opportunities to grow we d love to meet you Every day our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud You can help AzCXP provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed Microsoft s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond Responsibilities Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices interactions between cloud technology layers and components basic dependencies at scale and the code that defines infrastructures Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products Develop and evangelize insights best practices and standards that can be applied to improve system platform and or product development and operations across the business Drive continuous improvements in the architecture code features operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture share knowledge and code always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products Demonstrate end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design interactions between cloud technology layers Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews static analysis reviews meetings on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents Qualifications Required Qualifications 7 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration OR Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 3 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration OR Master s Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field AND 2 years technical experience in software engineering network engineering or systems administration Experience working with large-scale distributed systems e g cloud computing providers SaaS services etc ideally with millions or billions of users or similarly complex environments Preferred Qualifications Awareness of and ability to reason about modern software systems architectures including load-balancing queueing caching distributed systems failure modes generally microservices and so on 4 years of design build or implementation of distributed service health - Specifically desired is a deep understanding and familiarity with MELT Monitoring Events Logging Tracing design and implementation patters for large-scale distributed services Previous experience as a technical lead that can drive engineering solutions Aspire to grow as a person as a teammate and as an engineer 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 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