Solid understanding of systems fundamentals in operating systems, cloud platforms, or distributed systems. Openness to feedback and ability to collaborate effectively with diverse groups. Demonstrated independence, bias for action, and comfort with ambiguity. At least 12 years of engineering experience. Proficiency in C#, C++, Java, or other object-oriented programming languages; knowledge of SQL dialects and PowerShell or automation experience is advantageous.
Responsibilities
Design and deliver new product capabilities to enable new Search workloads in Azure. Ensure product and service quality through hands-on DevOps involvement and the development of live site tooling. Engage with customers to better understand scenarios and resolve issues. Develop expertise in Azure provisioning and service management Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills. Experience building and shipping production-grade cloud services, including designing and implementing telemetry and monitoring solutions.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent experience. Experience with Lucene, Elasticsearch, Open Search, and the full ELK stack is beneficial. Background in building systems on large cloud platforms is a plus. Experience coordinating resources across diverse teams to restore service and maintain SLAs. Ability to conceptualize distributed services, understand their dependencies, and troubleshoot across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage, and distributed service layers. High enthusiasm, integrity, creativity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment. Desire to work collaboratively, find win/win solutions, and celebrate team successes. Consistently display deep passion and empathy for customers and co-workers. Comfortable dealing with unknowns and ambiguity, able to sharpen fuzzy or unclear situations into actionable focus. Demonstrated ownership of and expertise in a medium-to-large problem area. Quickly grasps the basics in related technical areas. Strong fundamental skills, including debugging and system design. Emerging leadership skillsāboth technical and organizationalāwithin project and engineering teams. Proposes solutions to challenging problems and drives them to completion. Familiarity with both the processes (how work gets done) and the customers (why the work matters), with an understanding of the broader business context. Must be able to independently design system-level features. Security first approach: Ability to design secure by design solutions, identify and improve security posture Logistics: Applying a systematic approach, being productive and efficient, quickly picking up new skills, managing time and priorities well, and conducting honest assessments and post-mortems. Influence: Expressing and sharing opinions across technical and process dimensions, influencing the roadmap and planning across multiple versions, and interacting effectively with team. Data Skills: Proficiency in drilling down through data and familiarity with techniques such as slice-and-dice, linear regression, and classification. Given a set of bugs, decides which to fix and how, articulates the rationale, convinces the group to approve the plan, and follows up to prevent similar issues in the future. Identifies a scenario or problem, then designs and implements a feature end-to-end while working collaboratively with others. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. *
Original Posting
This role is sourced from Microsoft. Apply on Microsoft careers page