Software Engineer

Does thinking at hyper scale excite you? Do you love systems design and virtualization technology? Do you enjoy contributing to and working in a healthy, diverse, and inclusive work environment? Do you like driving new initiatives in a fast-paced organization exploding with growth? If so, then the Azure Compute Hardware Platform Innovation team is the place for you.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Supports identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight.
• Characterizes the performance of hardware components and platforms, and optimizes systems for performance, cost savings, and reliability.
• Builds and improves automation to aid in performance characterization, lab and scale testing, and onboarding of new hardware platforms.
• With guidance, learns to create and implement code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable.
• Assists and learns about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.
• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

• Bachelor Science Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Rust or Python
• Understanding of system architecture/hardware, operating systems, networking, or large-scale distributed systems.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

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