Blazing fast performance with incredibly high scale, availability and security to enable the most cutting-edge products on the web. Billions of requests per second and terabytes of bandwidth usage. Hundreds of millions of users. Are you up for a challenge?

　　The mission of the Azure Frontdoor team is delivering a highly scalable, performant and reliable service, that provides an abstraction layer to the internet for the world’s premier customers. We accelerate some of the largest services in the world with hundreds of millions of users while also protecting them from malware and DoS attacks.

　　The Azure Front Door team is responsible for building out and operating infrastructure around the world, as well as building and shipping a sophisticated service with CDN, Global Load Balancing and Protection (including WAF) capabilities that makes each of the Azure Frontdoor customers experiences lighting fast and highly available services while staving off any threats from the internet to these services. We live and breathe the engineering culture that many web companies (both large and small) are increasingly adopting, where a single engineer wears all the hats necessary to design, implement, validate and release great features. We collaborate closely with product teams at Microsoft as well as internally to ensure we’re maximizing efficiency in the system and deploying highly instrumented code to generate metrics across hundreds of thousands of requests/sec from thousands of servers located around the globe. We embrace Open Source (both using and contributing) and write code (C/C++/C#) in both Windows and Linux platforms.

　　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.

　　Responsibilities

　　Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

　　Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

　　Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

　　Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

　　Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

　　Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

　　Qualifications

　　Required 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.

　　Experience in

　　Systems programming with design and coding skills

　　Distributed systems and building cloud services.

　　Domain knowledge in networking, virtualization technologies, container ecosystem, and network resilience.

　　Familiarity

　　gRPC, Linux/Unix systems

　　Container platforms and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.).

　　Other Qualifications:

　　Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Preferred Qualifications:

　　Experience with

　　Creating and operating distributed services in Azure/AWS/GCP and/or competitive offerings

　　Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and .NET Framework) and/or competitive offerings.

　　Familiarity with

　　Application (HTTP, HTTPS), transport & security (TCP/UDP, TLS) protocols 

　　L7 proxy (nginx, envoy, haproxy) is a plus.

　　Contributions to open source software projects.

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