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Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA
Job Description
OverviewThe Azure Platform Capacity and Efficiency team develops and operates the services that power the capacity experience for Azure customers. These include the Azure Allocator -- the core service that assigns customer workloads to physical resources -- along with services that analyze, monitor, and optimize capacity consumption. Working in the Azure Platform Capacity and Efficiency team offers a unique blend of distributed systems and optimization algorithms. Capacity services will meet the availability and scalability requirements of the Azure control plane while relying on data analysis and machine learning to drive improvements.We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us deliver a world-class platform capacity experience. In this role you will contribute to the design and implementation of these fundamental services in the Azure control plane. You will drive improvements to workload allocation; protection of capacity for reservations, fault-handling, and maintenance; and production of telemetry for prediction and optimization. You will join an inclusive and collaborative team that loves learning, values teamwork, and is dedicated to the success of Azure customers. You will have opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and direct impact on the Azure business. We seek team members who bring a diverse perspective and where a developer will not only write code, but will have meaningful influence on the direction of the product. We are building a team where diversity of thought and background is valued as technical skills, and where everyone is encouraged to contribute new ideas to make our customers' lives better. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders and business leaders to define the requirements and objectives of a capacity experience for customers that also enables maintenance operations to be performed on the Azure platform.Identifies dependencies, documents design, and drives the work group's project and release plans for allocation and capacity services.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment.Designs and develops distributed software services and solutions that are engineered for scale, performance, and reliability.Contributes to high-quality engineering to ensure that services are functional and easy to operate, monitor, and maintain. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other DRI engineers by developing and following an operations playbook, by working on-call to monitor services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, by alerting stakeholders about service status, and by initiating actions to restore service for simple and complex problems.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of services while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders and business leaders to define the requirements and objectives of a capacity experience for customers that also enables maintenance operations to be performed on the Azure platform.Identifies dependencies, documents design, and drives the work group's project and release plans for allocation and capacity services.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment.Designs and develops distributed software services and solutions that are engineered for scale, performance, and reliability.Contributes to high-quality engineering to ensure that services are functional and easy to operate, monitor, and maintain. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other DRI engineers by developing and following an operations playbook, by working on-call to monitor services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, by alerting stakeholders about service status, and by initiating actions to restore service for simple and complex problems.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of services while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
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Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
Open
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