Overview
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Microsoft Specialized Clouds combines the power of edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver comprehensive edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. Our team is dedicated to extending Azure's native capabilities to the customer edge, empowering customers to run a wide range of edge applications, including network-intensive workloads and mission-critical apps, with enhanced resiliency, security, observability, and performance.
Would you like to learn about the inner workings of Microsoft Specialized Clouds? Are you excited about jumping deep into various areas and composing a bigger picture? Microsoft is leading the way to extend Azure cloud services to sovereign, disconnected, edge, enterprise, and hybrid scenarios. Deploying hyperscale services into hybrid and disconnected clouds provides unique and innovative engineering challenges. If you are inspired by this cloud innovation, have the skills to build and support production grade services, and are looking for a dynamic and collaborative team environment, come talk to us!
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Responsibilities
We are looking for highly motivated individuals who want to work in a startup-like environment and enjoy tough challenges. You will partner with key Azure platform teams to create products that enable customers to adopt Azure to host their network infrastructure and operations. Our market opportunity is huge, and our team is expanding.
As a Principal SWE you will contribute to the Azure Local product vision and be responsible for architecting solutions ground-up.
You will
• Incubate new ideas, carry PoC, convert into feature requirements
• Take features from ideation to successful global roll out
• Act as an expert code and design reviewer and mentor other engineers
• Accelerate development velocity for all engineers and deliver continuous improvements to the team’s process and codebase
• Establish best coding practices and automation process
• Build strong cross group collaboration with other cross-geo teams to remove blockers and drive for comprehensive end-end service delivery
• Leverage other data platforms (open source and within Microsoft) for building solutions
• Work on customer support cases, collaborate with various internal teams and customers to resolved within the SLA timelines.
• Collaborate with Product management team to conduct customer workshops to educate customers on features, translate the feedback into engineering requitements.
• Torch bearer for AI driven development
To thrive in this position, you should be a creative and analytical thinker, technical, and committed to excellence. Ability to lead complex projects with strong record of end to end delivery of high-quality products is a huge plus. You are willing to learn from our customers and your peers. You excel at customer and stakeholder management.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, c#, .NET. Golang, Java, or Python
• 10+ years of experience in commercial software development
• Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software
• Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices
• Experience in building large distributed systems software
• Experience in Microservices architecture
• Experience working with Kubernetes and Helm charts
• Understanding of basic computer networking
• Self-starter, who proactively identifies problems and drives for resolution
• Great problem-solving skills and outstanding drive for results
• Data centre networking knowledge is added advantage
• Experience with Azure
• Knowledge of security compliance of Public cloud services
• Ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence
• Advanced technical degree (MS/PhD) is a plus
Ability to meet Microsoft 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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**