Are you excited by the idea of shaping how Microsoft builds and operates cloud services at global scale? Our company-wide product comprises of the software inventory system that integrates with and underlies many of Microsoft’s internal engineering tools and processes, and an operational intelligence solution that provides a 360-degree views of the security, privacy, compliance, and reliability profiles of each piece of software Microsoft delivers to customers. Our platform and experiences enable the company to deliver secure, resilient, and trusted cloud services to millions of customers worldwide.

As a Software Engineer in Azure Core, you will work within a highly skilled, collaborative, and fast-moving team that thrives on solving complex problems, iterating quickly, and delivering meaningful business value. You will use modern Azure services and data technologies to build scalable, innovative, and impactful solutions that sit at the core of Microsoft’s cloud.

We are looking for an experienced and creative engineer with a bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity by driving clarity for the team. You will help build an intelligent inventory system that models and manages a variety of critical engineering assets with rich metadata and relationships, and an extensible platform that enables integration with a growing number of engineering tools and processes. This role will enable you to grow technically by building an enterprise-wide product that is critical to building, operating and managing all Microsoft services, working with cutting-edge big data and AI technologies, and collaborating with engineering teams across the company.

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.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Required Qualifications:

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.