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Microsoft · 2 weeks ago

Sr Software Engineer - Software Defined Networking

Microsoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Networking’s SDN team, where the role involves building high-performance, scalable virtual networking solutions for the cloud, enabling enterprise-grade network functions for Virtual Machines in the cloud.

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Responsibilities

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

CC++C#JavaPythonLinux/Unix/WindowsNetworkingDistributed SystemsVirtualizationSDN architectureGRPCRESTful Services

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
2+ year(s) experience in one or more of the following areas: C, C++, C#, Java, or Python, and Linux/Unix/Windows systems programming
Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, TLS/SSL, HTTP/HTTPS.)
Distributed Systems Development
Virtualization (containers, kubernetes) (hypervisors; VM switching), performance optimization
Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services
Developing gRPC or RESTful Services
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, OR Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
4+ Years experience architecting and optimizing SDN control and data plane components in a large-scale, multi-tenant environment

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1M
Key Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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Vukani Mngxati
Chief Executive Officer - Microsft South Africa
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