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Microsoft Corporation Software Engineer II in Bucharest, Romania
Does thinking at hyper scale excite you? Do you love systems design and virtualization technology? Do you enjoy contributing to and working in a healthy, diverse, and inclusive work environment? Do you like driving new initiatives in a fast-paced organization exploding with growth? If so, then the Azure Compute Hardware Platform Innovation team is the place for you.
As a Software Engineer II in Azure Compute, you will define and validate the hardware and virtualization technologies that provide computational capabilities for Azure. You will work with partners and customers to deliver innovative solutions and find ways to improve efficiency. This opportunity will allow you to impact millions of users, accelerate your career growth, and constantly learn and wear many hats as you iteratively deliver value to customers.
You will directly contribute to the architecture of new systems as part of the core Azure infrastructure, including hardware platforms and virtualization. You will learn about the challenges that affect operations at a global scale and help design and optimize the next generation Microsoft Azure offerings. You will also learn what it takes to support new business models, applications, and operating models as we bring new customers and partners into the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
Characterizes the performance of hardware components and platforms, and optimizes systems for performance, cost savings, and reliability.
Builds and improves automation to aid in performance characterization, lab and scale testing, and onboarding of new hardware platforms.
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Creates and implements code for Azure offerings, reusing code as applicable.
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
Experience in system architecture/hardware, operating systems, networking, and large-scale distributed systems.
Other Qualifications:
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
Experience working with vendors, customers, and internal partners in a cloud environment and defining, validating, and managing hardware virtualization technologies.
Experience with mentoring/managing team members. Experience in improving efficiency, creating clarity, and driving cross team collaboration to achieve results.
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