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Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer in Redmond, Washington
Are you interested in building a distributed service that can process requests at extremely low latency, in a high-scale manner, at terabits per second of traffic and millions of requests per second, across hundreds of millions of users, with extreme reliability? Are you interested in delivering a highly scalable, performant and reliable service, that provides acceleration and protection against Distributed Denial of Service attacks for some of the largest services in the globe.
Azure Front Door delivers a geographically distributed internet-facing set of services that provide acceleration, caching and highly customizable traffic processing. Azure Front Door is an all-encompassing charter that includes the building of Content Delivery Network (CDN), Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA), Audio Video streaming acceleration, advanced load balancing & rapid failover, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and many other cool technologies. Azure Front Door enables our customers to take a simple backend HTTP application and expose it to the world such that the app has global footprint, low-latency, high-throughput, super-scale, fault-tolerance, security, easy management, and reduced load on the customer backend. Azure Front Door accelerates some of the largest services in the world.
To succeed in this challenging landscape, we are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join our team who can add immense value on building tech that is extremely reliable, highly performant, and vastly scalable; moreover, we strive to create a work environment in which you will find very friendly co-workers who are always ready to help you along the way. We live and breathe the modern software engineering culture in which a single engineer wears all the hats necessary to design, implement, validate and release.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who are passionate about building & operating such technology. So, if the thought of building rich features, aggressively squeezing compute & memory overhead, pushing gigabits of throughput, and thousands of requests per second is exciting then the Dataplane team in Azure Front Door is the perfect place for you.
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
Develop and operate the core HTTP traffic processing.
Write and operate code that is super-scale but lightweight, maintainable, efficient and reliable.
Be critical in enhancing the performance, quality, density and reliability of the platform.
Embody ourCulture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) andValues (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:
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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Pythono OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Pythono OR equivalent experience.
Experience in any of the following areas
HTTP and/or TCP
OS internals (Windows or Linux)
Rust
Distributed Services
Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, programming, asynchronous & multithreaded designs.
4+ years of software development experience in large codebases.
Good technical know-how, ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep in new focus areas.
knowledge in design and problem-solving skills, with a bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale.
Good written and verbal communication.
Good cross group collaboration skills.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 8, 2024.
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