Senior Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

We are looking for a software engineer to help us build the next generation of Azure compute infrastructure that powers Microsoft first party and third party customers. This is a rare opportunity to define and drive the next frontier of compute infrastructure that can meet the ever growing compute demand and optimize utilization of the hardware through allocation algorithms and packing. While we are a production team, we work very closely with an applied research team so we are able to stay abreast of the latest cutting edge research, as well as participate in research publications.

If you are interested in pushing the envelope on the cloud-scale distributed system technology, graph optimization, allocation and building rock-solid platform based on them with 99999 availability with low latency -- we would love to hear from you!

* 5+ years of equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications:

* Delivering cloud services in an engineering role
* Distributed systems design and analysis
* 5+ years of coding in Java/C#/C++
* Experience in messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, CEP, & Spark
* A BS or MS degree in Computer science or 5+ years of equivalent industry experience.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Design and develop robust, distributed, scalable and resilient platform for Azure Computing, including services and tools; Developing Pub-Sub system on top of open sourced Zookeeper/Kafka and also contributing to the open source community. Live site monitoring, tooling and customer engagement on issues and features that affect customers; proactive live site detections and mitigations