Software Engineer II

Azure is going through a steep growth curve. We are building a new container platform, incorporating the best industry practices, to accelerate the pace by teams across Azure Core in delivering infrastructure services with world-class performance and reliability.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join the Azure Core Compute Quota Services team in the design and the implementation of new container platform service. We are taking a strategic bet on .Net Core running in Linux containers. Because Quota service will eventually be involved in the provisioning of every Azure resource, the design and the implementation of Quota service must ensure service reliability and performance at Azure scale.

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• 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
• OR equivalent experience
• Experience with Linux based environments
• Experience with Linux based environments
• Previous experience or knowledge of Kubernetes
• Previous experience or knowledge of working on distributed systems
• Previous experience or knowledge with networking concepts (TCP/IP/HTTP/GRPC)

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry experience as a software development engineer
• Experience in developing and operating cloud services at scale

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• Grow engineering expertise in developing and owning new container platform services.
• Collaborate with Program Managers and teams across Azure Core to design and advance the new container platform services through consensus building.
• Participate and practice a customer-centered engineering culture.
• Balance between resource constraints and business priorities via the innovation in design.
• Adopt data driven approach with a strong focus on system performance, availability, and serviceability.
• Prioritize repair-items and optimize for on-call engineers’ work-and-life balance.