Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help achieve that mission.  

 As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW (Hardware) infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Firmware COE (Center of Excellence) as part of SCHIE organization is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for software/firmware stack for Microsoft Azure, improving the quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft Cloud hardware. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for working as a member of team to develop SW (Software) in high throughput and multi-tenant services in Azure cloud, with knowledge of DevOps concepts and best practices.

• Ability to work on large scale distributed services on enterprise scale cloud.

• Responsible to help shape, define, develop, and implement SW solutions for SCHIE Cloud activities. Develop and use software services to enable firmware deployments flows for existing and upcoming hardware product lines that Azure supports.

• Responsible for daily live site operations, monitoring, and implementing performance and COGS(Coft of Goods Sold) fixes.

• Onboard to various deployment methods, support ICMs(Incident Management) and fleet issues.

Other:

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Node.JS, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.  

• 2+ years’ experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, etc.   

• 2+ years experience in both software and systems engineering   

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: *  

• Experience in distributed cloud services.

• Experience in service engineering lifecycle and live site operation at internet scale.   

• Experience writing code to automate day-to-day tasks. 

• Skills in priority setting, analysis, communication, time management, scheduling, and multitasking   

• Experience with building infrastructure using Microsoft Azure technology.   

• Data center project experience from inception to go live 

• Sense of ownership and continuous improvement mindset   

• Proven verbal and written communication 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 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .