The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing everything, and Microsoft is a leading innovator in the field. The Azure IoT team is building an IoT platform capable of handling the 50+ billion connected devices predicted in just a few short years. Our customers are everyone from Makers all the way up to Fortune 100 companies. Everything from lightbulbs to cities will become IoT-enabled and our mission is to offer the most scalable, powerful, secure IoT platform for all those “things.” Be part of the next technology revolution!

The Azure IoT client team is looking for motivated engineers excited about joining the new world of IoT. The embedded device C SDK ensures portability on a range of platforms, such as, Linux, Windows, OSX, iOS, Android, and different flavors of Real-Time-Operating-Systems. We enable connectivity for devices and gateways using protocols like HTTP/AMQP/MQTT and more.

To learn more about this team, check out our SDK. 

The embedded C SDK team is highly collaborative and greatly values diversity of thought and ideas. As a team we have a strong track record of building industrial strength solutions that reach customers across the world. We are proud of what we build and how we build it. We run lean, obsess about customers, and use an evidence-based approach to decision making. 

  

Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds as well as professional and life experiences. We maintain and grow that diversity what makes us better at building the best solutions for our customers while having a blast doing it! Core to our team culture is the belief that you must have a ‘people-first’ approach to sustainably building and supporting 24x7 cloud services. This means we support each other to build things the right way.

Responsibilities

Members on the team value engineering practices that ensure high quality code - code reviews, requirements, unit testing, TDD, etc. - and continuously look to improve problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills. We value passion, creativity, accountability, and the desire to learn new technical areas.

• Work cross teams to take new IoT concepts from inception to production
• Design and implement highly efficient code that scales to hundreds of millions of devices at minimal operational costs
• Enable advanced connectivity mechanisms between the IoT services and its devices
• Implementation / integration of standardized, industry-wide protocols such as MQTTS, AMQPS, HTTPS and Websockets
• Design and develop efficient, airtight security primitives for connecting to the cloud
• Work directly with major customers in the industry to both diagnose and provide solutions for their technical scenarios
• Target device platforms including freeRTOS, AzureRTOS, Linux, Windows and iOS

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• 2+ years of professional experience developing and shipping software products
• 2+ years Coding skills in C99

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience in C languages for embedded devices.
• Experience with one or more of these platforms: Linux, Windows, OSX, iOS, Android, RTOS
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Experience with Open-Source development and best practices
• Experience with computer networking and security is a plus
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent organization, prioritization, and communication skills
• Demonstrated openness to feedback and effectiveness at collaborating with diverse groups of people
• Demonstrated independence, bias for action, and tolerance for

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. 

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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