Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
$117,200 - $250,200
DevOps
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
5,000+ Employees
4+ years of experience
AI · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the System Operations team, part of Xandr's Real Time Bidding platform. The platform operates a hybrid environment of global datacenters and Azure. Software engineers on the System Operations team ensure this platform operates efficiently and error-free with automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and scales the toolset and resources to match platform growth.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the System Operations team, you are responsible for ensuring the operational integrity of tens of thousands of systems distributed globally. These systems include DNS, DHCP, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, CDN properties, NGINX load balancer clusters, and all the automation and APIs in between that allow us to manage them. The System Operations team ensures all components on the platform work together seamlessly to handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second.

With such a diverse technology landscape, automation and consistency is key here. You will develop and utilize tools that ensures the right changes are deployed to the intended systems in an automated fashion. There will be plenty of opportunities leverages your ability in finding the most efficient solutions to manage our growing technology stack, as well as expand your experience working with, among other things, data center management tooling, provisioning automation, configuration management, orchestration, and cybersecurity.

This opportunity allows flexible hours and remote work.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Last updated 21 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer

  • Engineer solutions for various projects and operational needs required by our customers
  • Perform code reviews to changes to the infrastructure configuration files and updates to tools libraries and APIs
  • Manage remote servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements
  • Provide support to technical and non-technical customers from various constituencies
  • Investigate and troubleshoot issues with hardware failures, application performance and software debugging
  • Coordinate and engage with other teams during incidents or planned maintenance
  • Handle escalations on technical issues and operations from global team members
  • Maintain ZFS (Zettabyte File System) storage clusters to ensure data redundancy and business continuity
  • Provide mentorship, coaching and guidance to teammates
  • Maintain documentation for the infrastructure software stack

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer

Python
Go
Kubernetes
Linux
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years writing scalable tools using scripting languages like Python, Perl, and/or Go OR equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of troubleshooting and administering Dell hardware such as the PowerEdge C and R systems using out-of-band management tools such as iDRAC or OpenIPMI
  • 4+ years of experience in administering, deploying, and troubleshooting Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and operating container technologies, especially Kubernetes and Docker, in a distributed systems environment
  • 4+ years of developing Infrastructure as code, execution plans, resource graph and change automation using Terraform, Puppet, and/or Ansible

Benefits For Senior Software Engineer

Medical Insurance
Education Budget
Parental Leave
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

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