Microsoft
Software Engineer
MicrosoftRomania1 day ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
Calling for a Software Engineer 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 fastest-growing businesses at Microsoft on the mission to make Azure the world’s computer powering all customer workloads! The Azure Core Compute Node Services team is responsible for materializing and managing customer-facing compute resources as virtual machines, containers and bare metal servers. We actively explore forward-looking technologies, evolving the host operating system (OS) while utilizing hardware offloads and leveraging disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance, compliance and security.

As a Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that run on millions of nodes, work across organizations 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 grow into a senior technical or organizational leader.

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

  • Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor and reuse code to achieve high quality, performance, reliability and security.
  • Independently create a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions. Identify the need for a broad versus selected approach in testing mechanisms and make informed decisions to implement the most effective tests.
  • Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, responding to any service degradation or downtime alarms, alerting stakeholders about status and initiating actions to restore service. Additionally, as a DRI 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 as new vs. existing, mitigate and work towards improving the release process.
  • Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
  • Work with Rust and develop your skills in the language.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience using debugging software, creating technical documentation and understanding basic operating system concepts.
Other Qualifications

  • Ability to work with Rust and develop your skills in the language.
  • 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

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience working in a distributed environment.
  • Proficiency with Hyper-V, VMWare, Docker
    • OR other virtualization technologies.
  • Familiarity with Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).
  • Knowledge of Windows or Linux operating system internals.
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