Software Engineer - Azure Resource Graph

Microsoft • Atlanta, GA

17h

About The Position

Azure Resource Graph’s (ARG part of ARM/Azure Control plane) mission is to Reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and making it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable, and performant tools.

ARG is the Inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure experiences and workloads that are running on top of Azure. Azure Portal, Azure Market Place, Search, Catalog at-scale experiences scenarios for every single Azure customer are powered by ARG. It provides a single pane of glass to query cloud resources via a set of flexible standards with rich scalable, efficient constructs. These standards and toolsets are used by large customers and first party teams alike. ARG’s vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their environments at-scale. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision. As of today, we return close to 6.5+ billion cloud resources per day through these standards to our customers and independent software vendors. This position is one of the core engineering functions and sits right in the center of the platform enabling various other connected engineering functions.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience working knowledge of building a true cloud-scale services,
• AND in one of the object-oriented programming languages like C#, Java, etc. with optional runtime internals knowledge.
• 2+ years of operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP.
• 1+ year(s) of experience in driving designs along with execution and accountability to deliver.
• has an optional qualification of mentoring interns or early college hires in the team,
• AND will exercise the power of design patterns when it comes to choices or decisions with practical knowledge of applying these patterns,
• AND will provide desire and drive for acquiring strong technical knowledge, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission,
• AND will be a great team player and contributor to an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving accommodating diverse perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Drive few critical initiatives to help platform scale to the needs of growing Azure needs.
• Responsible for the technical design and execution for building the necessary underlying systems to enable high throughput query-ability or high throughput ingestion-services in the platform with ambitious performance goals.
• Some of the areas in the platform need deeper knowledge in the area of Databases, Stores but it is optional. We believe someone who has proven deep in one computer science domain can replicate the same in other domains.
• Responsibilities include the blended intersection of distributed systems, programming language runtime internals, optional database internals to build the necessary infrastructure for Azure Inventory.
• Responsibilities will extend developing deep business acumen about Azure. You will create clarity for the team and mentor junior members by creating a sense of purpose on this mission.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level