Senior Software Engineer

Do you want to contribute to Microsoft's vision of empowering every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Are you eager to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and the broad spectrum of advanced technologies that drive modern cloud infrastructure and services?

Join the Azure Specialized team in India, where you can make a real difference by designing, delivering, and operating cloud-scale systems. We are responsible for building and offering specialized workloads, bare-metal and software capabilities on Azure, involving large-scale specialized solutions like VMWare, SAP, Oracle, Epic Healthcare systems, AI Infrastructure, and more. We are looking for customer-focused and passionate engineers from diverse computer science fields, like hardware, operating systems, networking, security, distributed design, and enterprise solutions, with focus on quality and sustainability.

Your ability to be the customer advocate, focus on service first, and part of a team that tears down silos to deliver the best customer experience will be critical for team’s and your success.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver software services that scale, secure, monitor, and auto manage specialized workloads on Azure
• Develop a deep understanding of customer requirements for mission critical workloads and build seamless experiences to deploy them in Azure.
• Produce scalable and maintainable components with a keen eye on efficiency and return on investment, which exceed performance benchmarks while optimizing resources.
• Tackle hard distributed system problems while making changes to fundamental Azure control and data plane components, networking, and operating systems.
• Stay abreast of emerging computing technologies, tools, and trends, evaluating their potential application in enhancing our infrastructure and services.
• Take the helm in ensuring seamless service operations by addressing real-time challenges as they emerge, empowering you to directly enhance service reliability and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with other engineers, teams, partners and PMs to deliver mission critical workloads in a fast-paced environment, while ensuring value-to-customers and live-site excellence.
• Lead, mentor, and guide engineers in the team, bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• 8+ years of professional experience in designing, developing, and shipping software.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 
• Hands on experience with distributed systems and services in the cloud.
• Experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, IaaS and/or SaaS products.
• Proven ability to solve complex technical issues for running online services.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience with .NET based systems, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and/or Message Passing Interface (MPI) are a plus.
• Experience with public cloud services including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Strong coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of systems software.
  
  

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