1 day ago
Cairo, EgyptSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable backend and distributed data systems for large-scale processing.
- Drive technical architecture, system dependency analysis, and engineering direction across backend services, data platforms, storage, and processing systems.
- Translate product and data requirements into scalable technical designs and integration strategies with stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Develop, debug, optimize, and evolve production systems for throughput, latency, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
- Improve live-site reliability through monitoring, observability, capacity planning, fault tolerance, performance improvements, and operational practices.
- Lead complex technical investigations and production incidents across engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering and data engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, problem-solving skills, and understanding of software engineering principles.
- Demonstrated backend or full-stack software engineering experience.
- Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems, high-throughput services, telemetry systems, and large-scale data processing solutions.
- Preferred: master's degree with 6+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with cloud technologies, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale data pipelines, data platforms, storage, or distributed data processing.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.