Senior Software Engineer - Azure Policy

The Azure Policy team’s mission is to empower our customers in governing Azure Resources at scale, by enabling them to prevent non-compliant deployments, modify existing resources, or deploy additional resources to ensure compliance. To achieve this vision, we also need to ensure that the policies deployed to large Azure environments are implemented safely to prevent disruption to existing workloads.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Policy on this team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and delivering high quality code for Azure Policy services. We are looking for a motivated, results-oriented and collaborative engineer with a passion for learning.

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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 4+ years of experience working on backend technologies
• 2+ years of experience driving project and mentoring other engineers
• 4+ years of experience with large distributed systems
    

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. 

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, OR Python 
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

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

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product feature.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness.
• Performs software development in C# and other languages as needed to build Azure policy services.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), working on call to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore 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.
• Mentors other junior engineers on the team.