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Job Description
The Azure Redis Cache team provides customers with secure, dedicated Redis cache endpoints, exposed as a service, managed by Microsoft Azure. The service has seen very rapid growth since its inception. As a part of the team, you will be working on exciting technologies, both proprietary and open source.
The problems we are trying to solve are both interesting and challenging: building a reliable, highly available and performant in-memory data store that is simple, cheap to operate and easy to use with rich server-side APIs and capabilities. We are a relatively small team that manages a very large number of resources in Azure, so come ready to work at cloud scale while still maintaining a small-team environment.
Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of experience developing commercial software with C#, C++ or Java
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Experience with building testable, distributed and highly scalable online services on Azure or similar cloud platform
Familiarity with Linux and git
Detail oriented design, coding, debugging and problem-solving skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience with Open Source Software development
Passion for quality with strong customer empathy
Ability to drive technical decisions across teams
You will be required to pass Microsoft background checks prior to the start of employment and periodically thereafter. 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.
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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.
You will work with other engineers in the team to bring the latest open source Redis cache on Azure, integrating it with various Azure management capabilities. You will work with multiple partner teams, deploy on a large scale all around the world and help customers achieve a very low-latency cache for their apps and services. The software you build will help run some of the most important services running in Azure. You will be part of a talented team where learning from peers and growing as a team is a core theme.
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