Do you want to contribute to Microsoft's vision of empowering every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Do you want to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing, create systems that make millions of machines act like one big cloud, build highly scalable disturbed systems? Do you want to be part of a team that has a start-up mentality and work together to satisfy our customers and have a lot of fun and learn along the way? If this interests you, then come join the Azure Specialized team in India. We are responsible for building and offering specialized workloads - bare-metal and software capabilities on Azure. This involves large-scale specialized solutions like VMWare, SAP Hana, super computers and more. We build high scale distributed systems for massive planetary scale, and we build systems that are fully automated end to end. Such an endeavor requires engineers with deep knowledge in computer science fundamentals, ranging from hardware, operating systems, networking, security to distributed design with focus on quality and sustainability. We need engineers with experience in open-source technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver software services that scale, secure, monitor and auto-manage specialized workloads on Azure.

• You will set an example for the team by producing high quality, extensible and maintainable code while considering efficiency, and return on investment (ROI).

• You will tackle hard distributed system problems while making changes to fundamental Azure control and data plane components, networking, and operating systems.

• Build seamless integration for specialized workloads in Azure. This would involve contributions and usage of OSS systems, writing cross-platform services that run efficiently on Windows and Linux.

• You will have to support operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implement solutions and mitigations to more complex issues affecting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalate as necessary.

• You will own one or more scenario that would require you to work closely across organizations and teams, to collaborate across geographies, and to lead, mentor and guide engineers in the team.

• You will get to deliver mission critical workloads. It is a fast-paced environment. Our emphasis is on value to customers and live site excellence

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and shipping software.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• Hands on experience with distributed systems and services in the cloud.

• Experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, IaaS and/or SaaS products.

• Proven ability for tracking complex technical issues for running online services.

• Experience in technical leadership in leading v-teams, mentoring and helping others grow technically.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Experience with .NET based systems is a plus.

• Experience using Linux, Docker, Kubernetes is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with public cloud services including Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.

• Strong understanding of systems software.

• Strong coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .