Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

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  • We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working across all aspects of high-throughput, multi-tenant services. You should have the ability to design components thoughtfully, handle errors effectively, and write clean, well-structured code with comprehensive tests and strong maintainability. 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. Embody our culture and values ​​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, JavaScript, or Python 1+ year(s) experience building or operating distributed systems or cloud services in production environments. Master'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, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Knowledge of Kubernetes networking configurations and security best practices. Experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes environments. Understanding of modern software and systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes, and microservices.