About the position
Are you passionate about engineering and excited to work on cutting-edge technologies at the Intelligent Edge? Our platform powers application delivery, performance, security, load management, and Internet routing for Microsoft, LinkedIn, Azure, and many others. Do you enjoy solving complex challenges related to distributed systems, scalability, and availability at Internet scale? Are you curious about emerging areas like the intelligent edge and eager to innovate in the future of Internet technologies? We want to hear from you! If yes, then join us as we are hiring a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Front Door team. You will design and implement globally distributed, scalable and low latency services that offer application acceleration, and service protection to our critical crown jewels partners such as Office 365, Xbox, Azure services, LinkedIN and to Azure customers. You will collaborate closely within our team, cross geo teams and other product teams at Microsoft to ensure we’re maximizing efficiency and deploying highly instrumented code to generate metrics across millions of requests/sec and records from thousands of servers located around the globe. You will embrace Open Source (both using and contributing), cross platform (Windows/Linux), and develop across languages (C/C++/C#/RUST). Our mission is to delight our customers by providing Layer 7 (L7) Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection @Edge, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) level Content Delivery Network (CDN), Global Load balancing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) perimeter services and Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection against DoS and other threats to enable them to maintain high availability and consistency for their workloads.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement globally distributed, scalable and low latency services.
- Offer application acceleration and service protection to critical partners.
- Collaborate closely within the team and with cross geo teams.
- Maximize efficiency and deploy highly instrumented code.
- Generate metrics across millions of requests/sec.
- Work with thousands of servers located around the globe.
- Embrace Open Source and contribute to it.
- Develop across multiple platforms (Windows/Linux) and languages (C/C++/C#/RUST).
Requirements
- Experience in designing and implementing distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of scalability and availability at Internet scale.
- Proficiency in C/C++/C#/RUST programming languages.
- Experience with Open Source technologies.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with Layer 7 (L7) DDoS protection.
- Knowledge of HTTP level Content Delivery Network (CDN) technologies.
- Experience with Global Load balancing and AI perimeter services.
- Understanding of Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection.
