We in Azure Messaging specialize in building services that send and receive trillions of sub-1MB data payloads a day, with a delicate balance of blazing speed and reliability. Our Ring 0 services in Azure (Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service Bus and Relay) form part of the backbone of a vast array of services within the Azure ecosystem, other products at Microsoft (including Office and Xbox) and the large subset of Azure customers that need to output or ingest data at scale.

We are experiencing massive growth in demand for our services â€“ over the last few years, our customer traffic has grown by scales of magnitude. We are looking for a stellar engineering leader to join our team to help us tackle the new challenges we face as we strive to further scale our services. We are highly collaborative, data-oriented, and greatly value diversity of thought and ideas.

Responsibilities

1. Provide leadership in improving the performance, reliability and scalability of the messaging services.
2. Build real-time data ingestion services which support millions of messages being processed per second with 99.99% service availability.
3. Build highly reliable distributed storage systems which support low latency/high throughput for ingestion, relying on cutting edge technologies like Azure Service Fabric. 
4. Integrate with ecosystems such as: IoT applications, Azure Serverless, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse.
5. Owning the products and driving them end to end, all the way from gathering requirements, development, testing, deployment to ensuring high availability post deployment.

Triaging issues and implementing solutions to restore service with minimal disruption to the customer and business. Perform root cause analysis, trend analysis and post-mortems

Qualifications

We are looking for engineers with strong problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills, drive for execution and results, while delivering quality software for large scale projects. We value passion, creativity, desire to learn new complex technical areas, agility and accountability.  Join a world-class team that is set up to innovate, create and lead from the ground up. Create innovative systems, ship often, constantly interact with customers and have fun.

Academics: B.E/ B.Tech or equivalent degrees (Masters is a plus).

Experience:  12+ years

Requirements:

• Solid CS fundamentals
• Fluent in multi-threaded
• Asynchronous programming
• Strong inclination for architecting at scale
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
• Good written and oral communication skills

Working experience of any of the technologies below will be an added advantage:

• Apache Kafka
• Microsoft Azure Services (any)

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