Senior Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

The Azure Messaging team is looking to build the next set of PaaS Messaging services to deliver the highest levels of reliability and performance. Azure Messaging services enable applications to support massive scale, can be operated with ease in public or private datacenters around the world and enable secure interconnection for millions of devices to and from the cloud.

Azure Event Hubs service provides real-time data ingestion service for Azure customers. The service is one of the fastest growing Azure services and we are looking for highly motivated and talented engineers to build next generation of messaging platform for various applications which require real time data ingestion, analytics, telemetry, or millions of devices connectivity (http://aka.ms/eventhubs)

Azure Service Bus asynchronous messaging patterns are the architectural cornerstone of reliable and scalable applications. Integrating cloud resources like Azure SQL Database, Storage, and Web Apps for App Service, with Service Bus messaging ensures smooth operation under heavy and variable load with the durability to survive intermittent failures (http://aka.ms/servicebus)

Azure Event Grid allows you to build reactive, event-driven apps with a fully managed event routing service. The Event Grid is a hyper-scale publish and subscribe service designed to route events raised by resources inside of the Azure platform and by event sources defined by customer solutions inside and outside of Azure to many concurrent subscribers and serverless functions at very high throughput rates, with high reliability and near real time latency (http://aka.ms/azureventgrid)

4+ years of software development experience

Preferred Qualifications:

* BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent industry experience)
* Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded, asynchronous programming, strong inclination for architecting at scale
* Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
* Good written and oral communication skills

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.

In the team, our day to day job involves working on some of the toughest and coolest distributed challenges like:

* Build real-time data ingestion services which supports millions of messages being processed per second with 99.999% service availability.
* Build highly reliable distributed storage systems which supports low latency/high throughput for ingestion relying on cutting edge technologies like Azure Service Fabric.
* Supports SAAS applications like Office 365, HALO, App Insights, Xbox Live and many more
* Support hundreds of thousands of Azure applications where the messaging services are the backbone for core features like: Triggering of event notifications, asynchronous, reliable communication, telemetry and diagnostics.
* Integrate with ecosystems such as: IoT applications, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Functions and Logic Apps.
* Deliver Azure Messaging services to Public Cloud, Azure Stack as well as Hybrid environments.

We are looking for engineers with strong problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills, drive for execution and results, while delivering quality software for large scale projects. We value passion, creativity, desire to learn new complex technical areas, agility and accountability. Join a world-class team that is set up to innovate, create and lead from the ground up. Create innovating systems, ship often, constantly interact with customers and have fun.