Software Engineer II

We’re Azure Messaging – a rapidly growing group of around 40 engineers – and we’re experts at moving hundreds of millions of small packets of information into and out of the cloud, per second.
Microsoft’s Intelligence Platform engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like Power BI, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer. We will bring the world’s data to the Microsoft Cloud, power a new class of data first applications, and empower everyone on the planet to make better decisions with data.
Modern cloud platforms provide robust messaging services to connect applications, connect IOT devices to the cloud, and observe events as they happen in the real world. Through Service Bus (http://aka.ms/servicebus), Event Hub (http://aka.ms/eventhub) and Event Grid (http://aka.ms/azureeventgrid), Microsoft provides a robust set of messaging capabilities that enable modern applications to understand and react to what is happening right now.
We’re looking for a dedicated, creative distributed systems expert to help us realize our next wave of innovations in Cloud Messaging Platforms. Some of the challenges you will tackle involve enable horizontal scale for event driven applications, help customers succeed in using their favorite serverless platforms to host their business logic, absorb the complexity of load spikes, fan-out without compromising E2E latencies.
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission. To learn more please visit: https://careers.microsoft.com/mission-culture ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for passionate people with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.
Your core responsibilities would include:

• Leading development on features from the front, driving the development lifecycle for ambitious features from prototype/inception all the way to widespread customer adoption.
• Generating software specifications, proof-of-concepts, and prototype solutions given high level feature requirements.
• Working closely with team members to unblock each other and share learnings and knowledge.
• Using data and telemetry to improve feature work and propose feature improvements to existing products.
• Working in constant communication with customers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

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  3+ years of building commercial grade, robust and scalable solutions in C#/C++/C or any other object-oriented programming
• Solid CS fundamentals, including fluency with multithreaded and asynchronous programming.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing Cloud online services or extensive experience using cloud online services
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline
• Experience working with messaging and stream analytics technologies, including open-source technologies like: Kafka, Active MQ, Flink, Spark, etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Cloud Screening (required for all C+AI Job Descriptions)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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