Software Engineer II - Azure Compute

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Azure is a global cloud platform that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. In addition to the public cloud offerings, the Azure platform also hosts global-scale Microsoft-internal services such as Microsoft Teams, Office, Bing, SQL, and so forth. The customer’s capacity experience plays a critical role in the success of Azure, and we seek to further invest in this area by building a new team of experts in Serbia – software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists – to drive important initiatives to further enhance Azure’s platform capacity management capabilities, and our customer’s capacity experience.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help us deliver highly scalable capacity management services and world-class platform capacity experience. As part of this work, you will have opportunities to work on the most fundamental layers of the Azure Control Plane’s technology stack like the Azure Allocator. You and your colleagues will work in close collaboration with your partner teams and develop and drive your own agenda. In collaboration with your partner teams, you will be responsible for the core services that track and manage capacity usage in Azure, maintain capacity buffers and provide key capacity telemetry. You will also work on highly efficient and customer-friendly capacity reservation services, customer workload deployment support, and you will build key platform capabilities to enhance Azure’s end-to-end capacity management excellence.

In your role, you will work with top-quality software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists to create a formidable team that tackles some of the most impactful and exciting problems in the Azure platform. You will work on the quality and scalability of the most central of all services in Azure; and you will enhance the Azure Compute allocation and capacity management services to cater to new customer scenarios. You will also collaborate with a variety of partner teams across Azure and Microsoft. And you will drive improvements to availability, scalability, and operability. If you are interested in large-scale distributed systems and enjoy working on reliable data engineering solutions, if you want to become part of a fun-loving, diverse team that seeks challenges, loves learning and values teamwork, if you want to work on services with tremendous growth potential and virtually unlimited impact on Microsoft’s core business, and if you want to help build up a new engineering team in Serbia, then this is the role for you. You will have opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and work on truly high-business impact areas.

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 field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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 AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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• Own and deliver complete features including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping.
• Lead the refinement of products through data analytics and make informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Collaborate with partner teams across the world to drive key platform capacity management capabilities and enhance customer capacity experience scenarios.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.