Senior Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Want to help building Microsoft's private cloud (Azure Stack), participate in industry transformation and work in the team where writing clean code, getting things done, mutual respect, cross-discipline/team collaboration and having fun are the values we live by? Come talk to us!

Microsoft Azure Stack is a new hybrid cloud platform product that enables customers to deliver Azure services from their own datacenter.

We are looking for a senior developer to help us drive implementation of various modern back end services that form the core of the Azure Stack management. These services are highly distributed, work across geo-distributed regions, deal with security, state, long running jobs and many more. The job is collaborative - requires working with many partner teams, learning and understanding how to use their technology.

Minimum qualifications:

* 5+ years of industry experience
* 3+ years experience in one or more of the following: C#/C/C++/Java
* Technical degree in computer science or 8 years of equivalent experience required

Preferred qualifications:

* Post-graduate degree a plus
* Solid CS fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded programming, strong inclination for architecting at scale
* Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
* Ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software
* Azure experience is a big plus

Cloud Background check:

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.

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.

* Build new and make changes in existing services that run both in Azure and in Azure Stack
* Leverage experience in building distributed systems to write a quality code, with good unit-tests, learning, mentoring, experimenting, collaborating and influencing.
* Be a good team member -work through challenges with excitement and enjoy writing clean, simple, testable and elegant code.