ROP - Software Engineer II

Do you want to contribute to Microsoft's vision of empowering every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Are you eager to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and the broad spectrum of advanced technologies that drive modern cloud infrastructure and services?

Join the Azure Specialized team in India, where you can make a real difference by designing, delivering, and operating cloud-scale systems. We are responsible for building and offering specialized workloads, bare-metal and software capabilities on Azure, involving large-scale specialized solutions like VMWare, SAP, Oracle, Epic Healthcare systems, AI Infrastructure, and more. We are looking for customer-focused and passionate engineers from diverse computer science fields, like hardware, operating systems, networking, security, distributed design, and enterprise solutions, with focus on quality and sustainability.

Your ability to be the customer advocate, focus on service first, and part of a team that tears down silos to deliver the best customer experience will be critical for team’s and your success.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal business units and stakeholders to understand the requirements for efficient and effective delivery.
• Handle project features from design, implementation, to deployment.
• Independently develop a product, service or feature, taking code reusability, quality and security into consideration.
• Participate in breaking down requirements into smaller work items, to bring clarity and provide development and testing estimation.
• Make software services secure, reliable, highly available and fault resilient.
• Introduce automation for repetitive tasks to reduce implementation time and avoid failure due to human error.
• Take the helm in ensuring seamless service operations by addressing real-time challenges as they emerge, empowering you to directly enhance service reliability and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with other engineers, teams, partners and PMs to deliver mission critical workloads in a fast-paced environment, while ensuring value-to-customers and live-site excellence.
• Lead, mentor, and guide engineers in the team, bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results
  
  

Qualifications

Required Skills :

• 4+ years of professional experience in designing, developing, and shipping software.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and services in the cloud.
• Experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, IaaS, and/or SaaS products.
• Proven ability to solve complex technical issues for running online services.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with .NET based systems, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and/or Message Passing Interface (MPI) are a plus.
• Experience with public cloud services including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Strong coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of systems software
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.