Are you looking to make a real difference in Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Do you want to work on the cutting edge of Cloud Computing, create systems that make millions of machines look like one big cloud, build highly scalable disturbed systems? Do you want to be part of a team that has a startup-up mindset and work together to delight our customers and have loads of fun and learning along the way?

If this excites 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 undertaking requires engineers with deep expertise in computer science fundamentals, ranging from hardware, operating systems, networking, security to distributed design, focus on quality and sustainability. We need engineers with experience in open-source technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver software services to scale, secure, monitor and auto-manage specialized workloads on Azure.
• You will get to solve 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 be responsible for a scenario that would require you to collaborate 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

• PhD, Masters or Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven ability to create componentized, well-architected software
• Proven track record of managing a team of engineers and delivering solutions successfully
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams, guide and mentor fellow engineers
• Publications and/or certifications related to cloud technologies a plus
• Proven track record of industry innovation in creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art is an added advantage

Technical Skills

• Sound computer science fundamentals, fluent in concepts like multi-threading and asynchronous programming, good grasp of memory management, data structures and algorithms
• Strong inclination for architecting at scale. Experience in systems side of software development, highly scalable infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus
• Excellence in design, problem solving, coding and debugging. With passion for software quality and security
• Demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services is a plus

Languages/Tools Experience

• Highly proficient in software development with C, C++, C#, or Go
• Deep expertise and experience working on Linux and its ecosystem a plus
• Experience working on Kubernetes, Docker and the containers ecosystem a plus
• Deep systems knowledge and experience in VMWare is a 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. 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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