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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft, Providence, Rhode Island, United States,


The Azure Networking team is responsible for designing and building the software-defined network infrastructure that powers hundreds of thousands of servers around the globe for Azure, Bing, and other Microsoft cloud services. At the forefront of Hyperscale Cloud Computing, Azure Networking runs one of the largest datacenter network infrastructures in the world. By joining this team, you will gain valuable experience in service-oriented network architectures and datacenter networking at massive scale. As part of this team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our High-performance Computing/Artificial Intelligence network technology, driving network telemetry, monitoring, and enhancing performance, scalability, and reliability.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us automate massive amounts of network metadata, as well as automating interactions with network devices – designing, writing, and deploying distributed software that will continuously monitor the health of our network and the communications over it. Example challenges include creating software-defined networks, building architectures that collect information from network switches and servers, rapidly analyzing them, and then orchestrating repair actions. You’ll also evaluate new network device features and performance, validate the health of network devices, collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and architect High-performance Computing (HPC) network systems, and actively participate in the development of software solutions tailored for high-performance computing environments.

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.

Qualifications:Required Qualifications: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 OR equivalent experience.Other Requirements: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 Qualifications: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, Python OR 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 equivalent experience.Experience with system design.2+ years experience with networking, distributed systems, and system-level programming.

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