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Azure is the world’s leading cloud offering, trusted by hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

The Azure Edge + Platform (AE+P) organization’s portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Azure Sovereign Clouds, Azure Edge Security, Azure Engineering Systems, Azure Media Services and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including the Azure Host OS, Linux and Windows. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices, delivers Azure to customers in their premises and Sovereign regions, and seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, Experiences & Devices, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide.

The Azure Sovereign platform team builds the platform and tooling required to build, deploy, and manage various Sovereign Clouds for our global customers. More than ever, our customers are betting on the cloud and expecting Microsoft to deliver an unparalleled experience, including when dealing with their most sensitive data. To further increase adoption by government, public administrations, and other highly regulated customers, we have embarked on an initiative to deliver Sovereign Cloud solutions in select regions, meeting unique technical, legal, and operational requirements. Our mission is to help create repeatable ‘Sovereign Cloud’ by providing a zero-touch buildout experience for AE+P services through automation; offer seamless cloud management experience across various sovereign trust boundaries and enable reliable Azure platform recovery during critical situations.

Responsibilities

As a Principal software engineer, you will lead development for a variety of services and platforms. You will be responsible for building and delivering latest Azure offering. You will get the opportunity to define the limits of Cloud Computing, and work with customers to solve real world problems. You will be responsible for driving new investments to solve hard problems, maintaining key infrastructure components using advanced software techniques, defining architectures, partnering with teammates, ensuring high code quality, high availability, security, compliance, and scalability of our services. This will be a place where you will innovate to overcome current technology, you will bring in solutions which solve resiliency, scale, security, compliance for our global customers across various Azure Geographies

• Provide strong technical leadership, raise the technical bar, maintain data and results-driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust 

• Drive long-term architecture and detailed design for highly scalable distributed systems with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets

• Collaborate across Azure teams to develop platforms that help simplify the roll-out, management and monitoring of Sovereign Clouds at scale

• Communicate effectively and partner well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from ideas to production code

• Write exemplary code working with large scale distributed systems with quality, simplicity, and maintainability as core tenets 

• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.

• Be a role model for open, honest and inclusive approach to problem solving

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

• 12+ years of hands-on software design and coding experience

• 3+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring cloud services/RESTful service/Distributed system

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS or similar cloud computing platforms is preferred

• Knowledge of Networking and Network security will be an added advantage

• Demonstrated success as technical lead for large, complex projects to successful delivery

• An entrepreneurial spirit with a can do attitude – a self-starter, project finisher and adaptive, collaborative

• Solid design and coding skills with a bias for architecture at scale  

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work across teams

• Prior experience working on C#, Java or similar

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree or equivalent in Computer science or related field required

Preferred qualifications :

As a team, we are interested in smart, self-driven individuals, with a positive can-do attitude, who come to work with a smile and enjoy writing clean and elegant code. We value passion, creativity, teamwork, agility, accountability, inclusivity, and desire to learn new complex technical areas. An unquenchable drive to write code, own quality, and a passion for helping ship high quality software is a must. The team is supportive of flexible work, and candidates may work from home up to 50% of the time.

This position offers a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on our business, positively impacting millions of people, empowering them to do more and achieve more. You will be working with various organizations, internal and external, and across multiple geographies and time zones.

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