Networking Engineer

The Azure Networking team continues to innovate across the stack, pushing new scale and features into cloud and desktop platforms while transforming infrastructure to meet growing needs of Artificial Intelligence infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of customers using Azure Services to host and run their Cloud Services in over 100 datacenters, running millions of servers and edge computing nodes all over the world.

As a network engineer in the Software Defined Networking team, you will work on unique and highly visible projects in the networking area that would shape future of software services for networking scenarios. The outcome will directly impact supporting scale and pace needed for innovating on requirements of Artificial Intelligence workloads. You will be responsible for defining, driving execution, and adoption of different features and capabilities in core Azure networking stack that will have significant business impact. You will have opportunity to work in broad range of technical areas, and across component teams inside Microsoft Azure, and within the Cloud & Enterprise division.

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• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drive identification of dependencies and development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders to drive project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiate actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

• 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.

• Reliable, high-quality software development.
• Large-scale orchestration frameworks.
• Extensive backend application development.

• 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.

• 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, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR Master'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.
• Demonstrated innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts that include continuous deployment, deployment automation, telemetry frameworks etc.