Overview

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‍Join a team that values collaboration and innovation in building cloud-scale solutions. The Software Defined Datacenter (SDD) team works on large-scale machine learning systems, cloud efficiency, and resource management, contributing to the success of Microsoft Azure and its customers.

As a Software Engineer on this team, you will design and develop systems that form part of the Azure control plane, using live telemetry and large datasets to analyze and implement resource management strategies. You may also collaborate with the Azure Systems Research Group to build prediction models for workload understanding and resource optimization. This role offers opportunities to work with engineers across Microsoft to ensure reliability and efficiency in cloud infrastructure.

You will gain experience in distributed systems, machine learning, and cloud technologies while contributing to solutions that impact millions of users worldwide. The position provides a supportive environment for learning and growth, enabling you to work on innovative projects that advance cloud computing.

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.

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‍Responsibilities

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• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Maintain communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.
• Contribute to efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Contribute to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.

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‍Qualifications‍

Required Qualifications

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• 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.

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Other Requirements

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• 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.

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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.

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