Senior Software Engineer

The Microsoft Development Center Serbia, with Offices in Belgrade, started with 1 employee and couple of vendors developing handwriting recognition technology. Today, our focus is much broader as we're contributing in key areas for Microsoft globally, having 700 full time employees. 

Azure Data is a Microsoft team leading the future of data processing in the cloud, developing globally recognized services like Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric - Synapse Data Warehouse. These platforms serve millions of users, from individual developers to large enterprises, and include innovations such as a serverless analytics engine capable of querying data lakes at massive scale. Microsoft Azure supports over 200 cloud-based products and services, enabling organizations to build and manage applications with confidence. The Azure Core team ensures scalability and reliability across compute resources, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing.

Microsoft fosters a culture rooted in respect, integrity, and accountability, empowering employees to innovate, collaborate, and grow. The Serbia team plays a critical role in enhancing Azure's infrastructure through durability, high availability, and orchestration. Microsoft is actively hiring Senior Software Engineers who are passionate about solving complex technical challenges and making a global impact. With a mission to empower every person and organization on the planet, Microsoft offers an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and everyone can thrive.

We are looking for Senior Software Engineers who are passionate and highly motivated to work on researching, solving deep technical problems, taking on challenges, and delivering cutting-edge market-leading software. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career. 

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.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience with distributed systems or microservices architectures

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

•  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science 
  OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 
  OR Python 
  OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  OR equivalent experience. 

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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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