Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 01, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in the Cloud+Artifical intelligence (AI) Azure Data team. As part of a core product engineering group, you will develop features, improvements, enhancements, and bugfixes within Azure Data products which are used by Microsoft's worldwide customer base like Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos Database, and Azure PostgreSQL. As a member of the Azure Data team, you will also be responsible for deploying and operating Azure services within an air-gapped environment. In this role,as a Senior Software Engineeryou will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will berequiredto meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers. 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. The scale of our operations is enormous. Microsoft's products and services are overwhelmingly consumed online, and billions of people use them every day. We need people who enjoy analyzing complicated problems,coming up withcreative solutions, working in focused teams to build things no-one has thought of before, all in the service of production reliability.
ResponsibilitiesDevelops "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, activelymonitoredand reusable. Improves test coverage for services,organizesand implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas. Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, andidentifiesnew software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, andmaintaincode for products. Uses open source when possible. Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise.Identifiesinternal tools and creates tools that will be useful for creating the product,determiningif methods are still applicable for the current solution. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies. Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting insubsequentdesigns. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call tomonitorsystem/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems whenappropriate. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA)timeframe. Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions. Escalates issues toappropriate owners. Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issuesimpactingperformance or functionality of Live Site service andescalatesas necessary. Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team. Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development. Embody our culture and values. | |