Microsoft Looking For Software Engineer at Atlanta, GA Full Time

We are the Azure Reliability team. We are a multidisciplinary engineering organization tasked with leading reliability holistically across the Azure platform – our goal is to Make Azure the World’s Safest and Most Reliable Cloud. Our people have a wide variety of professional experiences, and we are interested to meet both candidates with traditional engineering backgrounds and those without. Some of us are industry veterans, while others joined quite recently. Together we form a varied and talented team, and we want to continue building our diversity with our new hires. We strongly believe that diversity and an environment where everyone can feel safe to contribute their own insights is the key to making the best workplace possible. We know that the best workplace makes the best products and services: not only is it the smart thing to do, but it is also the right thing.

If you are excited by this type of challenge, and you love to work in groups of people who are similarly excited, come join us. We value the input of people who aren’t afraid to be learning all the time, who embrace mistakes as they show the way forward, and those who are excited to continuously improve both services and themselves. We strongly believe that diverse experiences, backgrounds, and an environment where everyone can feel safe to contribute their own insights in a data-driven, objective, and supportive way is the key to making the best workplace possible, and the best workplace makes the best products and services. Not only is it the smart thing, but it’s also the right thing.

The vision of the Azure Reliability Engineering group is to make it easy for everyone to create, consume, and manage planetary-scale, reliable cloud production services and infrastructure to achieve more. As a team, we bring together significant and complementary capabilities with tooling, infrastructure, monitoring and insights in new ways to increase our perspective. Our diversity of knowledge and experience comes together for the benefit of our users, our colleagues, our business, and ourselves.

Our engineering team is looking for software engineers that also have a passion for data engineering with a whatever it takes attitude to support the mission.

You will be responsible to design data analytics solutions from the ground up, combining disparate systems across multiple technology stacks. Your product will underpin triangulated problem management metrics with curated postmortem, TTx, and repair backlogs. Then we’ll go after dashboards and automated metrics for self-service insights into KPI’s, indexes for DRI and postmortem repair effectiveness, and highlight gaps. The output of your work will drive improvements into the product with data-driven decision making, drive discussion via insights at weekly live site checkpoints with service owners, and will be showcased in monthly service health reviews with executives and the senior leadership team (SLT). This work is critical to the “Live Site First” principle of the Division.

We are interested in candidates who excel at cross-functional collaboration and leadership, are able to multitask between projects and teams fluidly, and rapidly prototype new user experiences built on top on new and emerging cloud technologies. You will own the end to end design, implementation, and maintenance of new features areas, delivering them on-time and at high quality. We are particularly interested in candidates with prior Live Site, Operability, Quality of Service, Big Data, Data Analytics, Problem Management, and / or knowledge of Cloud based platform technologies (Azure, AWS, etc.).

At Azure, we can offer you a strong team, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a real impact on millions of end users. This is also a unique opportunity to work with world-class engineers. Apply now for this unique opportunity!

Responsibilities

Collaborate with internal & external partners to drive clarity and deliver tools, technology, and feature work.

Consult on a regular basis with project leadership to align expectations and deliverables.

Rapid prototyping of new user experiences built on top on new and emerging cloud technologies.

Owning the design, implementation, and maintenance of new features areas, delivering them on-time and at high quality.

Find and leverage existing systems to operate and maintain ETL pipelines to shape raw data into PbM. metrics. Build new tech into existing solutions where possible. Research and develop solutions for providing high quality data (data completeness, data hygiene).

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience with expertise in database technologies and software engineering.

Preferred qualifications:
Great problem solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence.

Self-motivated with a drive for excellence.

Understanding of relational database concepts.

Expertise in Database technologies (Relational and Multi-Dimensional).

Developing data visualizations in PowerBI or similar.

Knowledge of Data warehousing concepts.

Knowledge of Cloud based platform technologies (Azure, AWS, etc.)

Experience in Python or R

Professional experience working with object-oriented languages.

Extensive knowledge and experience in data warehousing, data processing (ETL), e-metrics/measurement, business intelligence, information retrieval, parallel and distributed computation.

Demonstrable business results from previous projects using your statistics, mathematical and algorithmic expertise.

Experience in analyzing very large real world datasets – not intimidated by processing 100’s terabytes of data!

Hands-on approach to data analysis – expertise with data analysis & statistical tools

Ability to flexibly move between projects and teams, providing high quality work with a positive attitude

Excellent written and verbal communication skills