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Calling all Software Engineer II with a passion for pushing the boundaries of cloud technology! Join our dynamic team at Azure Core Compute and be at the forefront of building the next generation cloud that will redefine how businesses scale, collaborate, and thrive.

We are one of the most profitable and fast-growing business at Microsoft on the mission to make Azure the world’s computer powering all customer workloads! The Azure Core Compute host team is responsible for customer-facing general-purpose compute offerings and management across Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, bare metal as well as exploring forward-looking host technologies including evolving the host OS, utilizing hardware offloads and leveraging disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance consistency at scale, compliance and security.

As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will build features that run on millions of machines, work across organization to meet the scale, elasticity, latency and reliability demands of our customers. You will have opportunities to learn new technologies and design the next version of services adapting to hardware evolution. You will have the freedom to ideate, create and provide thought leadership in bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices and tremendous opportunities to grow into a senior technical leader in the organization.

If you’ve dreamed of making global impact and love creating value for customers while also having fun, come talk to us today!

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

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.

• Contributes:

• to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight,

• AND to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items to bring clarity and provides estimation.

• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.

• Independently create a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions.

• Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries.

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI)

• working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems,

• AND for release management, ensure the release sticks to the schedule by identifying reasons for blockers/delays, improve the signals that are blocking deployments, triage the issues are new vs existing, mitigate and work towards improving the release process.

• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience

• in building System Software, SoC or applications that run on Windows or Linux systems,

• AND using Rust programming language,

• AND with Hyper-V, VMWare, Docker or other virtualization technologies,

• AND with improving service operations or engineering fundamentals.

• Knowledge of Performance profiling tools.

• Proven ability to create componentized and well-architected software.

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