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Azure is Microsoft's ever-expanding set of cloud services created to help organizations meet their business challenges. The Azure Production, Infrastructure and Engineering Performance Team is tasked with making Azure even more reliable by developing tools and services which discover and analyze any interruptions across Azure. Our team identifies reliability discrepancies within the platform and then works with teams across Azure to find the root cause and address the issue. We also partner across Azure to ensure new features are high quality and reliable before they are released to customers. As a result, we have the first opportunity to integrate and use new Azure platform features before they are released.
Experience in the following areas is required:
* 5+ years coding C/C++
* 5+ years developing on Linux
* Experience with debuggers such as GDB
* 2+ years Delivering cloud services in an engineering role
* A BS or MS degree in Computer science
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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.
Our Team ships to production daily, which requires stealth design and development skills. We follow agile methodologies with a focus on efficiency, iterating quickly and failing fast. This role will focus on Linux, C++ and Debuggers and will give you the opportunity to gain experience developing across the Azure platform and become a leader in analyzing reliability issues across the service.
We are looking for a software engineer with proven experience working with large scale distributed systems, who can assist us in delivering at least a 10x scalability improvement to our system which will then release as an Azure Product offering. This is a great opportunity to have a huge impact on the reliability and scalability of all of Azure and ultimately helping Azure customers deliver more reliable services.
If you have a passion for reliability of large-scale distributed cloud services, this could be a great opportunity for you!
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