Senior Software Design Engineer

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Redmond
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

The M365 Substrate Hardware Repair team is hiring a software engineer working on cloud scale hardware fault diagnosis of the M365 (Exchange) server fleet. Location can be Sunnyvale, CA or Redmond, WA.

Do you describe yourself as an explorer, builder, or teacher who thinks differently and has a technical background as a software developer, data scientist, or other technical discipline? We are looking for engineers and data scientists who embrace these roles and who want to work together to help work on the automated hardware repair service in M365 Core Platform, also known as Substrate.

Substrate is the data and intelligence platform that enables internal partner teams at Microsoft to build, deploy, and maintain compliant productivity apps and services with reduced effort and faster time to market. The purpose of the Substrate Hardware Repair team is to provide a high degree of hardware availability for our service at the lowest possible cost, through smart automation & data analysis.

With companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon all working hard to deliver capabilities in the cloud space, the need for timely delivery of strategic projects is critical to our success. The substrate hardware repair team helps to return hardware back to the service faster, and this has the potential to make large impacts to our credibility and brand in the industry.

The team is committed to making investments in AI and ML techniques to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the hardware repairs that are provided by datacenter operations staff in response to the ticketing generated by the automation solution. If you are excited about the AI/ML space this is a great place to land.

We are looking for Substrate Hardware Repair team members who are excited about making important technical contributions and who can see themselves in or growing into one or more of the following roles:

• You are an explorer who is excited about the opportunity to learn new code, meet other teams, and enable new customer scenarios.
• You have an approach for quickly gaining expertise and confidence working in new code bases.
• You are a builder who loves to build clean and testable code, strong working relationships, helpful documentation.
• You want to help create an effective team.
• You are learning how to architect adaptable and reliable solutions within constraints.
• You want to create a reputation of excellence for your team.
• You are inclusive. It is important to you that everyone on the team feel like they belong.
• You listen well and you speak openly.
• You have empathy and curiosity.
• You are a teacher who shares what they know with others.
• You want to help mentor and develop a team.
• You want to work closely with the rest of the founding team members to develop curriculum to train those who join us later and the approach for how we will work with our partner teams as we deliver projects in partner team areas.
• You are open to growing by sometimes making mistakes and breaking things you wish you had not. You are open to applying a growth mindset to those experiences to make your engineering or data science more reliable and resilient.

More About Microsoft 365 and Substrate

Microsoft 365 is the fastest growing cloud services business in Microsoft. M365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Skype with the desktop suite of Office products in an always up-to-date integrated service offering. Since its launch, the service has made it easier for millions of information workers across the world in small, medium, and large enterprises to use the best of Microsoft's business productivity solutions via the cloud. The service now extends the same capability to consumer communication and collaboration products.

You can read more in the Substrate Dev Center located here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/substrate.

A suitably qualified candidate would have the following qualifications and experience:

• 3 years of software development experience and familiarity in one or more OOP languages, such as: Java, C#, C++.

The following experience would be highly desirable in differentiating a candidate from peer applicants. Any of these would be beneficial, but are not required:

• A degree in computer science/computer engineering, another STEM field, or any other discipline. Individuals with a degree in a non-STEM field who have retrained as a software engineer and demonstrated a commitment to lifelong learning are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Experience scripting with PowerShell, bash or Python
• Hardware experience (device drivers, UEFI, Kernel mode software)
• Demonstrated track record of continuously building stronger coding, design, and problem-solving skills
• Server and/or service experience
• Cloud services experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.)
• Understanding of data analysis and machine learning
• Ability to quickly ramp up on new technologies

This role requires candidates be able to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements. 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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The engineers and data scientists in this team will play a critical role in driving the technical details of a variety of middle tier and backend service projects spanning multiple areas. They will have to understand the design, code and features of different areas, come up to speed and implement features that delight customers and partners via their intuitiveness, attention to detail and responsiveness. They have good partnership skills and are motivated to collaborate with others. This role is primarily DevOps focused, initially, but the expectation is that the engineer hired would grow to work on the Hardware Repair and Health service, or the OSSKU service.

Specifically:

• Specify Azure DevOps pipelines for running tests and other code deliverables on the services we maintain in a lab environment.
• Create, maintain, and debug these pipelines.
• Create test automation code for the lab environment.
• Abstract out the key components, create documentation frameworks, sample pipelines, sample tests so that a self-service infra can be created and maintained to allow other team members to create and maintain pipelines for their work.
• Provide oversight and guidance for other team members to make the best use of the lab environment.
• Create quality gates that may be leveraged during the PR (Pull Request) process.
• Become familiar with the hardware repair service and the OSSKU team's work so that the best possible DevOps environment can be created.
• Provide consulting on build systems.

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