Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

839123741

We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate and talented engineer to help build and grow the platform as we take on more and more mission critical workloads and secure them. You will have the chance to learn, understand and leverage a wide variety of technologies ranging from nitty gritties of how datacentres work to building fault tolerant, highly scalable microservices.

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:

• 6+ years of experience in commercial software development
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• 2+ years of experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software
• Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices
• 2+ years of experience with Software Defined Networking
• Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills
• 2+ years of experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms

• Design, implement, and run highly scalable SDN services that enable networking of millions of services and VMs with timely execution and high quality.
• Responsible for ensuring that highly usable, reliable and secure services are delivered to delight our customers.
• 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.
• Exhibit thought leadership in helping take the service forward with new capabilities and innovation, and improving the experience on existing capabilities.
• Effectively create clarity of status, progress and blockers affecting large projects.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor 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.