Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft

Responsibilities

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Experience in shipping, distributed systems, services, and highly available infrastructure is preferred.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#
• 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

• An understanding of basic applied cryptography concepts including encryption/decryption, symmetric and asymmetric keys, certificates, signing/verifying
• Experience with building services and web platforms that are highly reliable, run at high scale, and recover automatically from failure
• Practical experience with containers, PaaS/SaaS software engineering, distributed systems engineering
• Work on the core of Azure, building and securing the foundation of the cloud itself.
• Develop the full stack, from intuitive and responsive user and developer experiences, to highly scalable, secure and reliable webservices and back-end infrastructure.
• Execute on a technical strategy for delivering a new service whose core functionality is cross-platform and hostable in VMs, containers or bare metal.
• Deliver a lot of high-quality code for your products and engineering systems.
• Build on our Microsoft principles (create clarity, generate energy, deliver success) and values (respect, integrity, accountability) to effectively collaborate and make things happen.