Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP)

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide. One of our biggest challenges has been to keep up with the infrastructure growth plans and providing smart distribution of the resources to our customer and partners. We need Principal Software Engineer with a passion for technology, a vision of the future, and sound business judgment to help drive the organization forward.

CSCP Engineering

CSCP Engineering is at the tip of the Capacity Fulfilment promise for the Microsoft cloud, building the engineering systems that are needed to address this critical problem for our Azure customers. We are a dynamic team working with customers across the globe in delivering to the promise of the Microsoft cloud. Strong empathy for the customer, deep engineering and problem-solving capabilities and the ability to stay nimble and motivated through challenges brought up by the constantly growing and expanding customer base and demand are characteristics of our team. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. One of our biggest challenges has been to keep up with the infrastructure growth plans and providing smart distribution of the resources to our customer and partners. If you are comfortable working in a start-up/v1 effort, enjoy incrementally marching to towards a well-defined long-term architecture, and are motivated by solving hard business process problems with technology then this could be the position for you.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the detailed design of CSCP services/systems. Development of brand-new services, re-architecture of existing services, and drive natively integrated end-end solutions.
• Provide overall technical leadership and technical directions to Engineering team. Work closely within the team and across teams to help resolving technical conflicts and achieving consensus.
• Dive deep and Hands-on implementing most critical components, ensure service’s quality, especially ensure data quality.
• Strong design and problem solving skills, with a bias for architecting at scale.
• Hands-on experience at shipping a large scale, commercial, online-software solution.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies that will take the business to the next level.
• Evangelize services we have, best practices and processes.
• Research and keep current on technologies and system solutions.
• Work closely with program managers, engineering and business teams to deliver high quality services.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are: well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored.
• Partner with cross teams and leaders to contribute to meet immediate and longer-term business objectives.
• Mentor engineers in the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S, M.S, or Ph.D in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of experience designing and building large scale distributed systems which deal with huge amount of data, provide high quality data and predict possible events then prevent customer impacts
• Strong Experience with C# or Java, C++
• Strong technical abilities, problem solving, design, rapid prototyping, coding and debugging skills. Strong working experience with in-depth expertise in delivering solutions based on ASP.Net, Web API, Web services/Rest APIs

Preferred Qualifications

•  Proven experience in diverse technologies and technical challenges, in services development and systems engineering
• Proven experience in cloud technology stacks (e.g. Azure, AWS, K8S, etc.)
• Hands-on experience at shipping a large scale and resilient commercial, online-software solution
• Cloud experience, cloud native mindset, including performance, reliability, resilience, scale-out and big data analytics/machine learning
• Strong problem-solving skills and passion to solve hard problems as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills, collaboration skills and driving skills
• Demonstrated ability of driving complex problems and reaching consensus across teams
• Excellent communicator, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers Good interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation

CLOUD SCREENING REQUIREMENT

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 every two years.

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