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Senior Software Engineer

Location
United States
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
7+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • C#
  • Java
  • distributed systems
  • RESTful services
  • cloud services

Also useful

  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS

Overview

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Are you looking for an opportunity to work with the latest Azure offerings and push the limits of cloud computing? Do you want to solve real-life challenges in intelligent cloud and enable customers to achieve more? If so, we have the perfect role for you!

We are part of the Microsoft Specialized Cloud organization, delivering Azure to customers on their premises. Our team is innovating new technologies for managing Edge Devices from Azure in a safe, secure, reliable, and scalable model for our global customers across various Azure Geographies in a sovereign manner. We pride ourselves in developing technologies that enhance customer experience and enable using edge computing to address customer workload needs and managing edge device in Azure. We build ecosystems that bring intelligence to locations where customers are running their business.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the team, you will lead development for a variety of Edge Computing products and platforms. You will be responsible for bringing in the latest Azure offering in Customer's Edge locations. You will get the opportunity to define the limits of Cloud Computing and work with customers to solve real-world problems.

This will be a place where you will innovate to overcome current technology, bring in solutions that solve resiliency, scale, security at a completely different level. As a team, we are interested in smart, self-driven individuals, with a positive can-do attitude, who come to work with a smile and enjoy writing clean and elegant code.

We value passion, creativity, teamwork, agility, accountability, and the desire to learn new complex technical areas. An unquenchable drive to write code, own quality, and a passion for helping ship high-quality software is a must. The team is supportive of flexible work arrangements and encourages a healthy work-life balance.

Responsibilities

'• Provide strong technical leadership, raise the technical bar, maintain data and results-driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust

  • Drive long-term architecture and detailed design for highly scalable distributed systems with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets
  • Collaborate across Azure to develop platforms that help simplify the management and monitoring of Edge devices at scale
  • Communicate effectively and partner well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from ideas to production code
  • Write exemplary code working with large scale distributed systems with quality, simplicity, and maintainability as core tenets
  • Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning
  • Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving

Qualifications

'• 7+ years of experience in Software Development.

  • 2+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring cloud services/RESTful service/Distributed system.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS or similar cloud computing platforms is preferred
  • A strong Computer Science background with solid C#, Java, C/C++ programming, debugging skills is highly desired.

Additional information

'• Great design and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for architecting for performance, scalability, security, and reliability.

  • Deep understanding of efficient data structures and algorithms.
  • Bachelor’s/master's degree or equivalent in Computer science or related field required.
  • An entrepreneurial spirit with a can-do attitude – a self-starter, project finisher and adaptive, collaborative.
  • Able to analyze and clearly articulate complex issues and technologies.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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