Senior Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations is the team behind the cloud. MCIO is responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build the network that powers the world's largest online services.

The Microsoft Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) group is an exciting and fast evolving engineering group within Microsoft. CO+I's mission is to optimize and deliver industry leading cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services used by our customers around the world. The organization is responsible for strategy and delivery of the foundational platform for all Microsoft Online Services including demand and capacity forecasting, supply chain, data centers, networking, bandwidth, operations, and incident management. CO+I supports over 200 online businesses including Bing, O365, OneDrive, Xbox and Windows Azure branded services.

Within CO+I, Global Data Center Operation Engineering team is chartered to deliver the foundational platform to enable fast, flawless and cost effective execution of data center operations in every data center Microsoft's cloud services run in. We are going to build a brand new v1 service to fundamentally change how our data center critical environment infrastructure is managed and operated, in order to achieve 99.999%availability. The service will integrate with advanced IOT-enabled data center device monitoring system to enable automated decision making, utilize cutting edge machine learning algorithms to reduce operation cost, and leverage world-class augmented reality technologies with HoloLens in the future.

If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft's massive scale data centers are managed and operated globally, want to contribute to the fastest growing enterprise cloud service in the world, want to join an effort to build a brand new v1 service from ground up, if strong development skills, strong business and technical acumen and out of the box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table - this job is for you!

* BS in Computer Science, MS preferred
* 5+ Years' experience in designing and developing software service or tools
* Strong customer focus
* Proven track record of design and technical accomplishment
* Strong problem solving and communication skills

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

* Designing and building robust, scalable services and APIs using C#
* Utilizing latest Azure technologies including Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB and Azure App Services
* Lead and mentor junior software engineers in the team
* Effectively collaborating other teams across CO+I to ensure seamless integration
* Effectively communicating complex ideas to audiences with various technical backgrounds