Microsoft · 1 day ago
Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry, Mid Level
$84K/yr - $165K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Azure Control Plane team. The role involves designing and developing distributed cloud services, driving architectural decisions, and collaborating with various teams to enhance Azure's capabilities.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Learn and apply artificial intelligence (AI)-native development practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), taking responsibility for reviewing, validating, and improving AI-generated artifacts while seeking guidance from experienced engineers as needed
Design, implement, review, and maintain high-quality, extensible, and secure code for large-scale distributed services, applying modern coding patterns, debugging techniques, automated analysis tools, logging, telemetry, and best practices to meet reliability, performance, and scalability expectations
Contribute to the design and evolution of product and service architectures, including participation in design reviews, evaluation of design tradeoffs, and development of prototypes, while considering performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), security, privacy, and compliance requirements
Collaborate with partner teams to build and integrate features that support Azure Resource Manager (ARM) federated data and federated compute initiatives, identifying dependencies, ensuring interoperability, and contributing to end-to-end testing and validation of cross-system interactions
Support engineering excellence by applying security-first principles, following Microsoft security and privacy standards, contributing to threat modeling, compliance evidence, deployment gates, and automation, and ensuring solutions are designed with diagnosability, maintainability, and operational readiness
Implement, deploy, and operate features using safe change management practices, including feature flighting, rollback planning, capacity considerations, and disaster recovery mechanisms, while supporting deployment pipelines and production readiness reviews
Participate in live site operations and on-call rotations as a designated responsible individual (DRI), monitoring service health, responding to incidents within service level agreements (SLAs), leveraging telemetry to diagnose issues, and contributing to continuous improvement of reliability, observability, and supportability
Qualification
Required
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
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
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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Company
Microsoft
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