The Azure Machine Learning platform team in Raleigh, NC is looking for a senior software engineer who loves to build scalable, highly available, and secure microservices that run in Kubernetes.

Azure Machine Learning is the core of Microsoft’s AI Platform. Azure ML empowers developers and data scientists with the capability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models leveraging the full power of the Azure cloud. The platform team is collaborative and remote-friendly. We embrace hybrid work and promote working asynchronously via written communication. We value creativity, learning new technologies, collaboration, accountability, and a desire to get things done, and done well.

Responsibilities

As a senior Software Engineer on our team, you will drive the design, development, and support of the platform that powers Azure Machine Learning. You’ll work across teams to help make the whole organization successful. Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Design, implement, and support scalable, reliable, high-performance services.
• Write clean and concise code with unit tests.
• Design, implement, and support new features as well as extend existing systems.
• Investigate live site issues and implement and deploy fixes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Drive quality engineering via code reviews and design discussions

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with software design and development using general purpose programming language (C#/Java/Python etc.)
• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical IT work experience is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with microservices architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, interest in AI/ML, and related technologies
• Demonstrated technical design, problem solving, coding, and debugging skills
• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation

You may be a great fit if:

• You’re passionate about using the best of open source and contributing back to the community.
• You love digging deep into tricky live site issues to understand the root cause and how to prevent the class of problems.

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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.

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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.