Job Description

Are you passionate about cloud computing? Are you excited about transforming Microsoft's most critical business through automation, data and intelligence? If so, come help us build the most reliable, efficient, and futuristic datacenter infrastructure on the planet.

Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, which in turn power Microsoft's cloud business. We anticipate and provide capacity for continuous scale, enabling 30% of Microsoft revenue through Commercial Cloud ($38 billion in FY20 Q1). The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predicable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. CO+I Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud success.

As a software engineer on our team you will be responsible for end to end deliverables with a high degree of visibility. CO+I is a young organization within Microsoft, and as such, you will be responsible for envisioning, designing, coding, validating, and deploying NEW features from the ground up! We work at a fast pace, in an Agile environment. Being a foundational layer of Microsoft means that your individual work will have a broad impact across the entire company.

Our team culture is fun, agile, collaborative, and passionate. We are looking for great, creative engineers who can think outside the box to solve new problems.

We need someone who can step into a technical role, learn fast, and contribute to full stack development. CO+IE systems are developed in a next generation solution with frontend written in Angular/REACT/Node and backend written in C/Python, among other technologies. We leverage Azure components including but not limited to Azure web services, Azure Cognition Service, Service Fabric, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Data lake, Queues, and Azure Functions. We have a variety of synchronous and asynchronous systems working together to support planning, execution, operations and security at hundreds of datacenters around the world.

Knowledge, experience and skills:

* BS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
* 3+ years of strong coding skills in one or more popular languages and platforms, including C/C++, C, Java, JavaScript, SQL, Ruby, Python
* Excellent analytical skills and an ability to abstract concepts and think in terms of OO design
* Strong problem solving and communication skills
* Data-driven mind-set. Ability to mine data and persuade your team using effective analysis

Preferred, not required:

* SDE with 5+ years of software development with excellent C, Java, or C++ coding skills
* Master's degree in computer science is preferred.
* Expertise in middle tier/backend technologies such as .NET, relational and/or non-relational (NoSQL) databases, web services, ORM, and RESTful concepts
* Experience with cloud-based services is a plus (Azure or AWS)
* Machine learning or image recognition background is a great plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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.

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