Software Engineer - Azure Core

Job Description:

Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft's history and is the foundation of Microsoft's commercial Cloud Services. The Azure Core team builds and manages the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate and shape the world's computers, and we encourage you to apply and learn more!

We are looking for talented Software Engineers to help us deliver highly scalable services and world-class product experiences. We value people who can bring a diverse perspective to our products and where a developer will not just write code but will have a real meaningful impact on the direction of the products and which features to build.

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.

* Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services.
* Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions.
* Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis.
* Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better.
* Pair and participate in code reviews with other engineers in your team

Candidate Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
* Experience developing production software
* Experience with one or more OOP languages including but not limited to: C#, Java, C/C++,  Python
* System design, algorithmic skills, good knowledge of data structures and solid debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
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
* OR related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
* OR Python
* OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
* OR equivalent experience.
* Experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
* Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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