Senior Software Engineer - Azure DNS and Traffic Manager

Join the Azure DNS and Traffic Manager Team

Are you interested in working for the team that owns and powers one of the most fundamental pieces of the Azure cloud? Are you looking for a new challenge to demonstrate your expertise in building systems operating at massive scale with extremely high availability requirements? Then look no further than the Azure DNS and Traffic Manager team.

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll embark on a mission to build the world’s most reliable network and the cloud and empower customers to build highly resilient and low-latency applications. The components that you will be working on span our portal, scalable restful API layer built on top of geo-replicated data stores, data plane, and health monitoring that helps build self-healing systems. You’ll own key projects and drive them end to end with good quality and reliability.

This opportunity will allow you to innovate and solve complex scale and availability problems in running critical global services on an internet scale. You’ll provide technical leadership for the service. You’ll work in a team with other smart, passionate, and skilled engineers to deliver results as collaboration is one of the key pillars of our team culture.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to drive projects end to end from initial problem scoping to implementation and timely delivery.
• Design, implement, test, validate, and release software features to production stages with good quality, performance, security, and maintenance.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for the service, monitor system uptime and alerts, develop, and follow playbook to restore service health, and identify innovative solutions for automated self-healing systems.
• Innovate and improve engineering excellence to enable growth at scale and operate efficiently.
• Provide technical, end-to-end leadership for projects, adapting to new trends, solutions, and advancements in DNS space.
• Mentor and coach other engineers to drive our collaborative and passionate team culture.

Qualifications

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, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in software development building backend and/or distributed systems environment.

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, JavaScript, 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, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Programming experience in Rust or Golang.
• Experience in design and problem-solving skills, with a bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale.
• Experience in any of the following areas is a plus: DNS protocol, Global Traffic Management, large scale web applications, SQL/No-SQL databases, and asynchronous programming models.

Work Environment

This role is 100% US-based remote and does not support relocation. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances.