Microsoft
Software Engineer
MicrosoftRomania8 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
Azure Compute is one of Microsoft Azure’s most profitable and rapidly growing services. It provides millions of virtual machines that enable customers to run their workloads in the cloud. As a globally available foundational service, Azure Compute supports the scale of services such as Bing, Skype, Azure Store, and Structured Query Language (SQL) databases. It also powers millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and enables the resolution of large computational problems in seconds. The Azure Compute team serves as the core of Microsoft’s cloud operating system.

Azure Standards Platform manages central and automated Safe Deployment Practices (SDP) for platform services and artifacts that ensure our virtual machines fleet is secure and compliant. Azure Standards Platform is used by Microsoft teams and approved third-party publishers. Our team, Standards Platform Infrastructure, is looking for engineers to help us build and extend the underlying mechanisms that enable the safe and reliable delivery of these artifacts to our 15M+ Azure virtual machines, across 70+ regions where Azure is present.

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 feature.
  • Supports identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight.
  • With guidance, learns to create and implement code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable.
  • Assists and learns about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation.
  • Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.
  • Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge 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 discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements

  • 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 technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
    • OR Python
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
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