Microsoft Senior Software Engineer Azure DNS 

Ireland, Dublin 

793174425

Are you looking for a new challenge to demonstrate your expertise in building systems operating at massive scale with extremely high availability requirements (100% SLA)?As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure DNS team, you’ll embark on a mission to build the world’s most reliable network and the cloud. The components that you will be working on span our portal, scalable restful API layer built on top of geo-replicated data stores, data plane and health monitoring that helps build self-healing systems. You’ll own key projects and drive them end to end with good quality and reliability.

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, Rust, Golang, 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:

• Proven design and problem-solving skills, with a bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale
• Experience in any of the following areas: DNS protocol, large scale web applications, SQL/No-SQL databases and asynchronous programming models

• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to drive projects end to end from initial problem scoping to implementation and timely delivery.
• Design, implement, test, validate, and release software features to production stages with good quality, performance, security, and maintenance.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for the service, monitor system uptime and alerts, develop, and follow playbook to restore service health, and identify innovative solutions for automated self-healing systems.
• Innovate and improve engineering excellence to enable growth at scale and operate efficiently.
• Provide technical, end-to-end leadership for projects, adapting to new trends, solutions, and advancements in DNS space.
• Mentor and coach other engineers to drive our collaborative and passionate team culture.