Microsoft Software Engineer II-Azure Defined Networking 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

472155508

We provide the software systems behind our cloud-scale load balancing solutions. At the heart of these services is a robust software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization infrastructure, designed to autonomously manage the network system. We continuously innovate to improve the agility, scalability, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness of our services.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, C#
  • OR equivalent experience
• 1+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems utilizing micro-services

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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, C#
  • 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++, Rust, C#
  • OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience with distributed systems or microservice architecture
• 1+ years experience of building and shipping large scale cloud services
• 3+ years in design, architecture and development skills
• Experience with large scale and distributed system automation/execution frameworks

• Build next generation offerings in Load Balancer technologies and work in tandem with other SDN teams to deliver seamless, reliable and performant cloud infrastructure.
• Design, develop and deploy large scale distributed system with incredible scale and performance with massive amount of data processing.
• Identify opportunities and drive the design and implementation of end-to-end telemetry, alerting, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service health, manageability, and reliability.
• Ability to identify root causes of network and system performance bottlenecks and propose simple and implementable technical solution.
• Understand customer needs and translate them into product features and improvements.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and initiate actions to restore system.
• Mentor other engineers on the team on coding and design best practices.