Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

What is Azure IoT?Azure IoT has grown from an idea and a handful of people to become the market leader in cloud based IoT services and employing several hundred engineers.  Azure IoT is the ingress and egress into the Azure cloud for millions of devices.  Azure IoT handles billions of messages a month that fuel the pipelines for other Azure provided services.  As new business and consumer scenarios are unlocked, customers rely on insights and control from devices of all sizes in diverse applications.  Azure IoT is a comprehensive solution that spans devices, device management, Edge gateways, advanced analytics, and command and control functionality.

Why Azure IoT?Azure IoT is approaching a decade in production and the IoT landscape has matured over that time.  As the market leaders for IoT we must continue to innovate and evolve our product to keep pace with our customer needs and our competitors’ offerings.  We are currently at an inflection point in the market where the customer requires a hybrid cloud solution that spans both private and public cloud with an emphasis on edge computing for devices in manufacturing, smart buildings, data centers, and many other applications.  We need to build an IoT solution that can scale from the edge, through private and into the public cloud and allow the customer to scale and adjust there needs across all three seamlessly.  That’s the challenge we face moving forward and the opportunity that presents itself for the right engineering talent.

You will have:

• Autonomy and freedom to innovate
• Choice of the best of open source and Microsoft-internal technology
• Opportunity for outsized impact as part of a team with a growing charter in a rapidly growing space

At the same time, you also have the benefits of working at a top-tier tech company like Microsoft:

• Compensation, benefits, and perks
• Internal resources, technology, and opportunities for learning and growth
• Brand and networking
• Opportunity for massive scale as part of a suite with hundreds of millions of users

About this job

The Azure IoT team is looking for a highly motivated and talented engineer to help us design and deliver the next generation of Azure IoT services across the cloud and the edge. Candidates will help architect and deliver cross platform solution. Candidates will enable massive scale, stateful cloud and edge applications that are self-managing and can be operated with ease in public or private datacenters around the world, enable secure interconnection for millions of devices to and from the cloud, develop distributed systems capable of scaling to millions of transactions per second at sub-second latencies. We are looking for a principal level engineer with strong architectural experience, solid problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills, drive for execution and results, while delivering quality software for large scale projects. We value passion, creativity, desire to learn new complex technical areas, agility and accountability. 

Our technology stack:

• Linux and service fabric VM’s on Azure
• C# .Net, Node.js, GoLang, Rust development languages
• CosmosDB, Postgres data storage
• Kubernetes container orchestration for Docker container microservices

• Design, build, and maintain services with millions of devices, operating in multiple global regions
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver on the IoT Azure vision
• Continually seek deeper insights into the performance and scalability of our systems
• Improve service reliability, performance and latency
• Help lower the COGs of our services so that we can pass those savings on to our customers and improve our margins

Required Qualifications

• Do you have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python or equivalent experience?

Preferred Qualifications / Attributes

• Proficient in software design and coding
• A track record of architecting and developing large scale complex systems on Azure

• Strong ability to communicate ideas and designs to other team members and management

• Experience owning your code through production
• Curious about reliability and performance, up and down the stack
• Microservices development, deployment, and monitoring
• Experience with containerization and orchestration
• Efficient, tenacious debugging skills using logs and metrics

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.

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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