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.

As a Software Engineer in ARG, you will help execute few critical initiatives in the platform with Senior Engineers to scale to the needs of growing Azure needs.You are responsible for the execution of building the necessary underlying systems to enable high throughput query-ability or high throughput ingestion-services in the platform with ambitious performance goals.Overall, your responsibilities include the blended intersection of distributed systems, programming language runtime internals, optional database internals to build the necessary infrastructure for Azure Inventory. As a member, you will exhibit growth mindset by learning various technologies and product features to move in a agile engineering team. This opportunity will allow you to work with Senior Engineers in co-developing the designs while taking complete accountability in executions of those designs.

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Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.

• Supports identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight.

• With guidance, learns to create and implement code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable.

• Assists and learns about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation.

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.

• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP.

• Experience in driving designs along with execution and accountability to deliver.

Other Qualifications

• 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 1+ year(s) 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 with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• You have an optional qualification of performing DRI responsibilities for your service.

• You have a desire and drive acquiring sound technical knowledge, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission.

• You will be a great team player and contributor to an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving accommodating diverse perspectives.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,400 - $151,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $100,300 - $165,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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