Do you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge, cloud-scale distributed systems technologies? Do you want to enable cloud-based, stately applications that are fault-tolerant, self-managing, and operated at massive scale? Azure Service Fabric, within Azure Compute, is a highly decentralized runtime that abstracts and solves some of the hardest distributed systems problems, like failure detection, leader election, and replicated state machines that are fundamental to building hyper-scale, reliable, and available systems. Service Fabric powers many critical first and third-party services, including Azure Control Plane experiences, and runs symmetrically on the cloud and on premises.

At the core of Service Fabric product is the runtime which comprises of core set of system services in a Service Fabric cluster that are at the heart of running microservices at scale. The system services responsibilities span multiple aspects:

Enabling high availability of the cluster and stateful services running on top by effectively coordinating with Azure Infrastructure for rolling out infrastructure updates.

• Enable stateful services to take consistent backup of their data seamlessly and restore from same in case of a disaster.
• Efficient and fast access, and deployment of, microservice code across the nodes in the cluster.

At the top layer there is Service Fabric programming model and developer experience through which developers can write micro services leveraging the platform and drive inner loop development.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of strong technical leads and engineers to own critical parts of the Service Fabric runtime, developer experience and programming model and drive roadmap in accordance with the growing needs of Azure infrastructure and customer needs. The space has opportunity to create tremendous impact for all core Azure services running on top of Service Fabric and making product innovations/ enhancements to make them successful. You will be contributing to the growth and management of the team, planning for the execution, contributing to technical designs, in addition to defining the vision for the space.

You will also:

• Bring clarity, create energy, and drive results – you’ll set a vision, rally the team behind it, and deliver for our customers.
• Demonstrate the Microsoft manager attributes of coach, model, and care with the engineers on your team, so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with partner organizations.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.

Qualifications

• 10 + years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of leading and growing engineering teams.
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals and coding skills in C/C++/C#
• Strong experience in building distributed systems and driving their performance.
• Strong experience in multi-threaded, asynchronous, and systems programming.
• Strong technical design, problem solving, and debugging skills.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field, OR equivalent industry experience
• Effective interpersonal skills

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

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