Senior Software Engineer

Imagine building the world's computer that provides unprecedented reliability and unlimited scale, an organization that empowers individuals to achieve their potential and treasure grass root innovation, technology that spans machine learning, networking, operating systems, User Experience (UX), security, and a solution that enables millions of customers to run their mission critical services with confidence. The opportunities are infinite and innovation is limited only by our own imagination. We are responsible for enabling enterprises to connect their on-premise networks and devices to the cloud, in the most secure and performant way possible. Our team also builds application delivery services such as load balancing and firewalls. At the core of these services is a solid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructure that we continuously innovate on to improve agility, scalability, reliability and cost effectiveness of our services.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Networking design, you will develop, test, deploy and manage operations of critical services. We are looking for software engineers who are interested building infrastructure and hyperscale systems that are responsible for high impact network services that provide reliable connectivity.

This is a highly visible role in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity for technical and career growth. Our team's innovations are well recognized in the cloud and networking industry.

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.

* Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

* Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

* Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

* Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

* Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

* Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts 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.

* Other:

• Embody our Culture and Values

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o 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

o OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python

o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years experience in one or more of the following areas:

o Networking: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Google Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC), Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/HTTPS)

o Distributed Systems

o Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services

o Representational State Transfer (RESTful) Services.

• 4+ years of experience in computer networking focused on layer 3 routing, BGP and IPV6.
• 4+ years of experience in building networking cloud services.
• 2+ years experience in one or more of the following areas:

o Networking: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Google Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC), Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/HTTPS)

o Distributed Systems

o Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services

o Representational State Transfer (RESTful) Services.

• 2+ years of experience in computer networking with a focus on layer 3 routing, including BGP and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
• 2+ years of experience in building networking cloud services.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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