QualificationsC++AzureC#Back-end developmentJava
Responsibilities
We are looking for energetic, hands-on engineers to join a fast-paced team responsible for deploying and maintaining our existing services as well as creating enhancements that scale across all Azure customers. This role will work across the entire stack on a variety of tasks ranging from front-end and back-end development, database design, networking and security. Additionally, this role will participate in all stages of our engineering life-cycle from initial research and discovery, quick iteration on promising concepts, and solution prototyping and development, all the way through successful service roll-out and live site support. Key activities include:
Uses a working knowledge of the product or service, competitor products or services, and customer or partner knowledge to contribute to innovative feature area product or service designs.
Provides feedback on the product or service design that appeal to the customer’s sense of style, fun, and aesthetics, as well as their functional needs.
Helps define his or her own role in the delivery of the product or service design.
Designs features of products or services that consider the iteration and change required by the needs of the business.
Develops complete designs and test interfaces that solve classes of problems, enable integration across groups of components, improve reuse, and satisfy business, customer, engineering and operational requirements.
Drives design reviews, defines interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs.
Considers diagnosability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when his or her code is ready to be shared and delivered.
Applies coding patterns and best practices.
Qualifications
Professional development experience in a modern programming language (C#, C++, Java or equivalent)
Leads by example within the team by producing simple, extensible, and maintainable code with very few defects and contributes to effective test plans
Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to collaborate across a diverse team
3+ years technical experience in software engineering or related field
The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
Candidates selected for this position must comply with Federal Executive Order 14042 mandating that federal contractors and subcontractors receive the COVID-19 vaccine by being fully vaccinated before their date of hire, or work with Microsoft to receive an approved religious or medical accommodation.
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