Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · United States · Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and managing the core platform for Azure's cloud capacity management technologies. This involves developing and optimizing distributed systems at a global scale, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring high operational quality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
  2. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  3. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 4+ years of experience in designing, building, and managing distributed systems within a cloud environment, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • 4+ years of experience leading teams to establish and maintain high standards of operational quality at both a team and organizational level.
  • 4+ years of experience working with stakeholders to derive requirements and effectively delivering results through other Software Development Engineers on the team and across an organization.

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • high-scale distributed systems
  • cloud capacity management technologies
  • critical investment area for Microsoft Azure
  • millions of customers globally
  • high standards of operational quality