Principal Software Development Engineer - Passionate - CSI / Azure - Cloud Server Infrastructure at Microsoft
Principal Software Development Engineer - Passionate - CSI / Azure - Cloud Server Infrastructure Details
April 17, 2019, 3:56 p.m.
Engineering
Individual Contributor
Full-Time
Redmond, WA
Cloud First world,
To delight our customers in a Cloud First world, Microsoft Azure cloud business delivers highly available online services with cutting edge features and innovative functionality lighting up on a regular basis. Availability, reliability, and performance are all key differentiators that customers demand and expect in cloud services when choosing a provider. A major factor in the quality, as experienced by our customers, is the quality of the infrastructure that is running the cloud. Azure cloud services infrastructure (CSI) is a fast growing R and D organization that designs, engineers and qualifies the entire cloud-optimized infrastructure, including advanced Compute and Storage server technology that push the technological. Our team, within CSI, drives the hardware validation lifecycle and is accountable for the quality experience of our cloud customers. Our goal is to exceed customer expectations in every aspect related to infrastructure quality. Therefore, we invest heavily in automating
Fostering and maintaining a customer-obsessed culture Collaborating with hardware architects to determine key component and end to end verifications Designing, developing and delivering software that measures and improves h/w quality at scale Mentoring team engineers to ensure engineering best practices are held at a high bar Driving best practices, and when they don't exist, pilot solutions in an experimentation model that can be iterated on rapidly to show what success looks like Identifying and driving solutions for systemic issues, influencing and creating new designs, architectures, standards
CS Degree or equivalent experience 10+ years of experience shipping, operating, improving large scale distributed systems Experience with defining and measuring customer SLA's Great problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence Superior communications skills, verbal and written Knowledge and working experience in data mining, statistics, mathematics is a plus Capable of technical deep dives into service design, operating systems, networking and storage Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities through advanced impact and influence