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We invite software engineers who are passionate about advancing cloud technology to join our team at Azure Core. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the next generation of cloud infrastructure that enables organizations to scale, collaborate, and innovate. The work is fast-paced and impactful, offering the chance to contribute to foundational systems that support Microsoft Azure’s global reach.

Azure Core serves as the engine of Microsoft’s cloud platform. Within this organization, the Azure Service Fabric team builds a highly decentralized runtime and platform that addresses complex distributed systems challenges. These include failure detection, leader election, and replicated state machines—core components required to deliver hyper-scale, reliable, and highly available services across Azure Core and other critical Microsoft Azure offerings.

As a Software Engineer II on the Azure Service Fabric team, you will design and deliver cloud-scale distributed systems software that enables fault tolerance, self-management, and elastic scalability. You will collaborate with a talented and inclusive team focused on engineering excellence, long-term platform evolution, and continuous improvement through customer feedback.

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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of experience in designing, building and shipping high quality production software or services in cloud environment.
• 1+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems analysis and troubleshooting.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
  • OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years 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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• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• 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.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.