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Join the Azure Compute Foundation team, a vibrant group at the heart of Azure Compute. We shape and manage the lifecycles of millions of machines and containers, combining scale with complexity handling. Here, we foster a growth mindset, cultivating an environment where collaboration sparks innovation and drives success.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team that provides foundational services for Microsoft Azure. If you are passionate about cloud computing, want to work on a team whose services are indirectly used by all the Azure customers worldwide, and want to play a vital role in the design of mission-critical features of Azure, then we have an excellent opportunity for you.

Your role will gain you valuable experience in cloud services, data center networking, monitoring, and security, as well as working with partner teams. We need talented individuals like you to work on control plane services, tooling, and automation. This role also offers great opportunities to work with many partner teams and gain broad exposure to control plane and data plane technologies end-to-end.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
• You must be legally authorised to work in Romania to be eligible for this role (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)
• Fluency in English

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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with online services / Cloud is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability and passion for designing and building large scale distributed systems.
• The ability to multi-task while balancing short-term and long-term tasks is essential.

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• Design, develop, and deliver services, tooling, automation, tests and monitoring for Azure Compute foundational services.
• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor owned services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and restoring them back to health.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to latest trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.