21 days ago
Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of complex Azure infrastructure software components and services from requirements through production.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements, evaluate dependencies and trade-offs, and develop scalable technical designs.
- Design, implement, optimize, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable distributed-system solutions.
- Use telemetry, diagnostics, testing, and operational insights to improve reliability and prevent production incidents.
- Lead incident response and retrospectives, including on-call rotations as a Designated Responsible Individual, and drive systemic corrective actions.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and guidance for other engineers.
- Improve engineering systems, automation, deployment safety, observability, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 5+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C#, C++, Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Strong backend software engineering skills, including designing, implementing, testing, and operating production services.
- Experience designing and developing scalable distributed systems.
- Strong software design, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience, or a master's degree and 6+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience developing distributed systems and services in scalable cloud environments and owning production services through monitoring, incident response, reliability improvements, and operational readiness.
- Experience with datacenter infrastructure, hardware lifecycle management, or large-scale resource orchestration.
- Experience providing technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
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