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Sr.SWE - Microsoft

Remote · Redmond, United States
Skills:
c# c++ java python azure

Overview:  MULTIPLE POSITIONS! MULTIPLE LOCATIONS! OPEN TO REMOTE! 

Security is a topic you read about every day, and securing the Cloud is more important than ever.  Business and governments are under constant threat from a variety of actors, and they are moving to the Cloud in record numbers. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, security is among the most essential elements to get right, enabling trust and keeping people and their data safe. 

We are hiring Engineers who are passionate about building distributed, highly available and secure services. Join our team and help protect hundreds of millions of customers, Azure’s own infrastructure and chase after bad guys.

We strive to be a diverse organization with a culture that is very welcoming, highly collaborative and a place where you can bring your authentic self. From lively and passionate hallway and online design conversations, to online game days, we know how to have fun!  

Day to Day Duties:  

Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable 

Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered  

Collaborate with partner teams to ensure we provide a seamless onboarding experience 

Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews  

Conduct periodic on-call duties and drive changes back to the services based on the live site incidents 

Backend Engineers will focus on designing the highly scalable backend services, engage in capacity planning, performance analysis as well.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute technical expertise to help make sound architecture, design and implementation decisions 
  • Partner with and mentor junior team members 
  • Model best practices for quality and live site-focus

Required Qualifications: 

  • 5+ years’ experience in software development and engineering, working on distributed systems.
  • 5+ years’ experience working with C++, C#, Java, Python or similar language

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical IT work experience is preferred. 
  • Coding and debugging skills from prior work on distributed systems, API design and engineering for scale.
  • Exposure and/or experience with Azure or other cloud technologies. 
  • Security experience preferred, but not required

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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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Published on: 12/6/2022
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