Full Job Description
Building on Azure’s success as a horizontal platform, Azure Global is driving industry-specific conversations with our customers helping them digitally transform their vertically specialized customer experiences, operational processes, products, and partners. The Microsoft Azure Commercial Vertical group focuses on building Azure capabilities for key industries like Precision Agriculture, Retail/E-commerce, Energy (Oil & Gas, Power and Utilities etc.), Carbon Management, Supply Chain, Financial Services, Blockchain, Media & Entertainment etc. where there is a tremendous potential for the adoption of public cloud.
We are leading the change in the Energy sector, currently focused on oil & gas industry. We partner with customers, Independent software vendors, solution providers to deliver business critical platform and services for this multi-billion dollar industry. The Energy team is innovating in Azure platform and services – across Data ingestion, OSDU, HPC, AI/ML, Search – to being differentiated value into this market segment.
Who are we:
We have a start-up culture – dreaming big, move fast working hands-on with customers, and daring to build something that has never been built before. Your learning will get amplified as you work with some of the smartest people on this planet and use cutting edge technologies and agile development methodologies to solve business critical problem.
We are deeply committed to Diversity & Inclusion. We believe in the transformative power of diversity and inclusion. Only by actively engaging different perspectives can we challenge and stretch our thinking, enrich the experiences of our employees, and empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
We seek candidates who are curious about customers to help us create products that customers love in a nascent and hyped market. Experience handling ambiguity and rapid experimentation would be highly valued within our incubation business. Candidates with prior external, start-up or v1 experience are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates must have demonstrated collaboration skills to work constructively across functions, groups, and time zones to solve customer problems. Finally, we seek candidates who will contribute to a positive culture, where all members of the team can do their best work, creating an advantage out of our diverse backgrounds, styles, and skill sets.
The product portfolio will consist of multiple layers in the stack, some built from scratch as open source, others built as proprietary extensions to Microsoft’s existing platforms.
Responsibilities
Bring clarity, create energy, and drive results
Collaborate across boundaries with partner teams to create compelling first-party integrations that demonstrate the value of our product in business processes and experiences
Drive engineering workstreams as we build an incubation business that can unlock a new wave of thought leadership, cloud adoption, business models and value creation
Constantly learn and grow as an engineer and leader in the organization
As a developer in the team, you are responsible for designing, coding and testing features of the product working closely with Product Managers, Senior engineers, Customers/Partners and leaders.
Own the end to end life cycle of your features, from inception to managing it live on production.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or related field. Previous experience with web services, storage, cloud computing, and large scale systems is a plus.
8+ years of experience with designing, implementing, debugging and launching commercial software products or web services
A strong collaborator – you can explain your work, you ask great questions, you listen to your peers and your customers, and you like to give and receive feedback. Willing to leverage and build on top of the work of others to quickly meet customers’ and engineers’ needs – including adopting standard cloud capabilities and toolsets
Experience in systems side of software development. Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, architecture, memory models, and algorithms design. Proven ability to design and create componentized, well-architected software which can scale.
Understand that it is not enough to write working code. It must also be well-designed, secure, easy to test, easy to monitor in the cloud, and easy to add to over time. Be part of the live site culture and drive data driven improvements to both product quality and engineering efficiency
Excellent knowledge of Java/JavaScript/C#/REST Services/C++
Customer obsession, passion for technology & strong analytical skills
You should meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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.
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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.