Blazing fast performance with incredibly high scale, availability and security to enable the most cutting-edge products on the web. Billions of requests per second and terabytes of bandwidth usage. Hundreds of millions of users. Are you up for a challenge? 

The mission of the Azure Frontdoor team is delivering a highly scalable, performant and reliable service, that provides an abstraction layer to the internet for the world’s premier customers. We accelerate some of the largest services in the world with hundreds of millions of users while also protecting them from malware and DoS attacks. 

We’re looking for engineers at all experience levels.  

Relevant details at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door-overview  

Hiring for all levels – in Noida, Bangalore and Hyderabad. 

Responsibilities

The Azure Frontdoor team is responsible for building out and operating infrastructure around the world, as well as building and shipping a sophisticated service with CDN, Global Load Balancing and Protection (including WAF) capabilities that makes each of the Azure Frontdoor customers experiences lighting fast and highly available services while staving off any threats from the internet to these services. We live and breathe the engineering culture that many web companies (both large and small) are increasingly adopting, where a single engineer wears all the hats necessary to design, implement, validate and release great features. We collaborate closely with product teams at Microsoft as well as internally to ensure we’re maximizing efficiency in the system and deploying highly instrumented code to generate metrics across hundreds of thousands of requests/sec from thousands of servers located around the globe. We embrace Open Source (both using and contributing) and write code (C/C++/C#) in both Windows and Linux platforms. 

You will bring:   

• Intense eagerness to learn, ready to dive deep into complex problems.  
• Experience shipping products or services.  
• Passion and drive for profound impact  
• Strong focus in delivering customer value  

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience of software development experience  
• Experience in systems programming with solid design and coding skills  
• Strong experience in one of C#, C++, Golang, JAVA 

• Strong skills in Distributed systems and building cloud services  
• Familiarity with gRPC, Linux/Unix systems.  
• Familiarity with Container platforms and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)  
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.  

  

Preferred Qualifications  
  

• Experience with creating and operating distributed services in Azure/AWS/GCP and/or competitive offerings  
• Experience in Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and .NET Framework) and/or competitive offerings  
• Passion for improving and streamlining the engineering process, tools, methodologies to develop and operate services at hyper-scale.  
• Familiarity with Application (HTTP, HTTPS), transport & security (TCP/UDP, TLS) protocols  

• Knowledge of L7 proxy (nginx, envoy, haproxy) is a plus  
• Contributions to open source software projects is a plus. 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with ability to develop partnerships