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Azure is the world’s leading cloud offering, trusted by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The Azure Edge + Platform (AE+P) organization’s portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Health and Standards, Azure Sovereign Clouds, Azure Edge Security, Azure Engineering Systems, Azure Media Services and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including the Azure Host OS, Windows, and Linux. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices, delivers Azure to Customer in their premises and Sovereign regions, and seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, Experiences & Devices, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide.

If you are driven by the challenge of designing highly scalable distributed systems, Azure Data, Intelligence and Fundamentals IDC team is looking for a passionate software engineer to join our Driver services team. More than 1 billion devices run Windows and device drivers are critical components of the operating system.

Microsoft Hardware Dev Center is the platform for all driver developer to sign and publish drivers to windows systems. High-quality device drivers are key to a great experience in Windows, and we engage closely with our hardware partners to deliver drivers at scale. The team’s mission is to enable publishers to have a seamless and reliable experience to submit and distribute drivers to the ecosystem.

Our highly collaborative team is expanding to build more features to support this critical mission for the current and future generations of the Windows operating system. We operate in the cloud, focusing on building and enhancing driver servicing platform, managing long-running orchestrated workflows, and refining web and API-based partner interfaces.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross team stakeholders to capture user requirements, incorporate insights into future designs.

• Contribute architectural discussions and develop proposals independently.

• Deliver high quality system design that meets service reliability, performance, scalability requirements.

• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.

• Use debugging tools and methodologies proactively and reactively to ensure product robustness.

• Maintain operational integrity of live services on a rotational, on-call basis. Act as a DRI for system monitoring and issue resolution.

• Develop internal tools to streamline product creation and evaluate current methods' applicability. 

   

Qualifications

Required qualifications (need to be quantifiable):

• Computer Science BS/MS degree OR related technical field with programming in languages such as, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, or Python.

• 7+ years of software development experience in building low latency high throughput services.

• Proven experience in developing large-scale distributed systems utilizing cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS.

• Proficient in distributed system management with solid architectural and technical system design skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of SQL/NoSQL technologies and principles of high availability database design.

• Strong troubleshooting skills with a track record of working on service-oriented products.

• Awareness of agile software development methods and best practices, including delivering software features in phases.

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