Software Engineer II | Azure Resource Graph

About the Position

Azure Resource Graph’s (ARG part of ARM/Azure Control plane) mission is to Reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and making it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable, and performant tools. ARG is the Inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure experiences and workloads that are running on top of Azure. Azure Portal, Azure Market Place, Search, Catalog at-scale experiences scenarios for every single Azure customer are powered by ARG. It provides a single pane of glass to query cloud resources via a set of flexible standards with rich scalable, efficient constructs.

These standards and toolsets are used by large customers and first party teams alike. ARG’s vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their environments at-scale. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision. As of today, we return close to 6.5+ billion cloud resources per day through these standards to our customers and independent software vendors. This position is one of the core engineering functions and sits right in the center of the platform enabling various other connected engineering functions.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive critical initiatives to help platform scale to the needs of growing Azure needs.
• Responsible for the technical design and execution for building the necessary underlying systems to enable high throughput query-ability or high throughput ingestion-services in the platform with ambitious performance goals.
• Develop deep business acumen about Azure.
• Create clarity for the team and mentor junior members by creating a sense of purpose on this mission.
• Optional qualification of mentoring interns or early college hires in the team.
• Exercise the power of design patterns when it comes to choices or decisions with practical knowledge of applying these patterns.
• Provide desire and drive for acquiring strong technical knowledge, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission.
• Be a great team player and contributor to an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving accommodating diverse perspectives.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 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.
• 1+ years of experience developing, deploying, monitoring and shipping scalable cloud services.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years or more in deep hands-on working knowledge of building a true cloud-scale services.
• 3+ year experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages like C#, Java, etc. with optional runtime internals knowledge.
• 2+ years operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP.
• 1+ years of experience in driving designs along with execution and accountability to deliver.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: USD $102,100 - $219,200 per year.
• Full-Time employment.
• Opportunity to work in multiple locations including Redmond, WA; Mountain View, CA; Tokyo, Japan; Bengaluru, KA; and Hyderabad, TS.

About the Company

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.

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