Senior Software Engineer - Cloud and Web Services

Join Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Core team in Bucharest, Romania. This team is responsible for building and managing the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services for Azure, Microsoft's commercial Cloud Services. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate and shape the world’s computers, working on next-generation operational platforms, services, and solutions for Azure cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead, coach, and mentor a team of highly skilled software engineers.
• System Development: Build scalable systems and services for operational efficiency and manage Azure cloud services at scale.
• Collaboration: Work with Azure service teams to identify and articulate investment areas to drive efficiency, scale, and availability of the platform.
• Data-Driven Approach: Collaborate with data science teams to build a data-driven approach to identify gaps and improvements.
• Architecture and Design: Architect, design, and implement cloud engineering systems and platforms.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Senior technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

Preferred

• Experience building and operating web services, IaaS, PaaS on Azure, AWS, or Google.
• Experience building scalable and high-available services in the cloud.
• Solid computer science fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded, asynchronous programming, architecture at scale.
• Excellent technical design, problem-solving, and debugging skills.

Additional Information

• Security Screening: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. This includes passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Why Microsoft?

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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.