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Microsoft Corporation Software Engineer II- Azure Software Load Balancer in Melbourne, Australia
The Azure Networking team continues to innovate across the stack, pushing new scale and features into the cloud and desktop platforms while transforming our infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the 200-plus Microsoft online services, including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and several hundred thousand customers using Azure to host and run their Cloud Services in over 100 datacenters, running millions of servers and edge computing nodes all over the world. Our teams work on the breadth of networking offerings networking hardware, optical and internet protocol (IP) networks that span subsea, terrestrial and metro fiber, Hybrid services enabling virtual private network (VPN) and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) connectivity from customers' on premise network to our cloud, Edge services enabling optimized peering and routing, Software Defined Networking (SDN) products to enable customers to run their on-premise services in the cloud with Vnet, Load Balancer, Security Groups and Services, Application Gateways, Virtual Appliances to easily mimic on-premise architectures, and domain name system (DNS) services to reach and traffic manage services.
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
Build next generation offerings in Load Balancer technologies and work in tandem with other software-defined networking (SDN) teams to deliver seamless, reliable, and performant cloud infrastructure.
Design, develop, and deploy a large-scale distributed system capable of handling massive data processing with exceptional scale and performance.
Identify opportunities and drive the design and implementation of end-to-end telemetry, alerting, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service health, manageability, and reliability.
Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex system performance issues, identify bottlenecks, and propose practical, implementable technical solutions.
Understand customer needs and translate them into product features and improvements.
Be on-call on a rotational basis to provide support during non-business hours and handle emergency situations related to Azure Load Balancer.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Rust, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience
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.
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