At Microsoft's Azure teams, we develop, manage, and maintain the Azure cloud computing platform.
We're looking for skilled Software Engineers who can design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed systems in an agile environment.
We strive to create a work environment that is extremely reliable, highly performant, and vastly scalable, with very friendly co-workers who are always ready to help.
Innovating to build, operate, and optimize the network & infrastructure that supports billions of people every day, this supports all kinds of workloads.
We exist to provide the platform of choice for everyone, meeting customers where they are today and paving the way for the cloud of choice in the future.
Our culture promotes diversity and inclusion, and is clearly reflected in all of the things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do.
This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure, offering a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow.
As a Software Engineer at Microsoft Ireland, you will develop solutions used by billions of people around the world, working across different teams on various projects.
You can learn more about our Dublin Engineering Development Centre here.
Qualifications
1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
2. Demonstratable software engineering fundamentals.
3. Experience with one or more Object Oriented Programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python, Rust, C/C++, C#.
4. Experience with data structures, algorithms, programming, asynchronous & multithreaded designs.
5. Experience with building scalable and distributed cloud services.
6. Experience in one or more of the following areas is a positive:
* Golang
* gRPC
* Distributed Systems
* Virtualization (hypervisors; VM switching), performance optimization
* Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services
* RESTful Services
* Large scale web applications
* Distributed control plane asynchronous programming model
* Experience with containers, Kubernetes or other Cloud Native technologies.
* Experience with CI/CD tools and processes, for example, but not limited to Azure DevOps, GitHub or GitLab.
Responsibilities
* Work with Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver compelling sets of features.
* Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
* Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production services.
* Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
* Develop 'best-in-class' engineering for our services by ensuring that components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
* Expose test coverage issues, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
* Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses.
* Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
* Some teams, based on business needs, may need your participation in an on-call rota.
Benefits
* Industry leading healthcare
* Educational resources
* Discounts on products and services
* Savings and investments
* Maternity and paternity leave
* Generous time away
* Giving programs
* Opportunities to network and connect