Software Engineer 2

Job description

Are you interested in building experiences which enable Azure, the fastest-growing cloud platform in the world, make billions of dollars of revenue? Do you want to work in a team where you will build a platform that enables all the services in Azure go to market in a blockbuster manner? Do want to work on a team whose technology is used by every Azure customer? If you enjoy driving innovation in a fast-paced services team, are passionate about building great user experiences, and yearn to build highly scalable services, this is the right opportunity for you!  

What is this position? In this position, your role will be to design, build and own critical backend services which operate at mega scale in the cloud with 99.9% availability. You will be a part of the team which owns customer acquisition experiences, billing experiences, public APIs related to such experiences, work on integration with our backend commerce system and provide insight and analytics to our customers related to their cloud resource usage.  

What does it take? Our team culture is execution focused, collaborative, and passionate. We need strong technical engineers who are self-starters and are excited to build features that have significant impact on customers, developers and partners. Some of the qualities we look for in a candidate include:  

Experience: Intellectual horsepower and motivation are more important to us than experience. You should have strong technical skills and the ability to pick up new ideas and concepts quickly. If have experience with highly scalable online services, commerce and marketplaces, all the more better!

Execution efficiency: for any task, there is usually a way to do it much faster. As a startup, we need to scale out massively, and quickly.   Passion for owning your scenarios end-to-end: We are a combined engineering team - so you own the scenario from ideation, technical design, implementation, and operations.    

Cross-team skills: Our team works with multiple partners, both internal and external. You will need to work closely with partner teams to figure out solutions to current issues as well as help the leadership drive planning together for future product releases.

Basic Qualifications  

3 to 5 years as a software developer  

Passion for development and design best practices and cloud application patterns  

Passion for real customer and partner business scenarios translating to design impact on the platform   BA or BS degree in Computer Science or related field  

The ideal candidate will possess expertise with the latest cutting edge technologies used in building Web applications and Web services. Examples include C#, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, Knockout.js, TypeScript, and ASP.NET MVC. Don't have experience with these? We will consider candidates who have a proven record of delivering in an agile environment and are willing to put in the effort to learn and to build up this highly sought after skill set.  

Experience building scalable and fault-tolerant systems in the cloud/hybrid environments preferred.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.