Software Design Engineer

Are you a strong engineer who loves code, agility, and scale? Want to work on cutting-edge open source & cloud technologies and build the next generation Cloud platform for AI? Want to play with AI, Big Data, Cloud, Docker Containers and Kubernetes every day? Join the Azure OpenAI and Azure AI team!  

Azure AI are bringing AI within reach of every developer—without requiring machine-learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into Microsoft and 3rd party applications. Our mission is to enable commercialization of such cognitive capabilities through Azure as a value differentiator to drive cloud adaption with consistency, ease, and scale.

Azure OpenAI is part of Azure AI services, it is one of the hottest growing Azure services. We serve these exciting GPT family models for our Azure customers and provide enterprise promises features to our customers so they can run their AI workload safely, secure, and compliant.  This sector is growing fast, service new capabilities and new models quickly. So there are lots of challenges to solve the ever growing problems for our customers.

This role will have an end-to-end impact where you will have an opportunity to work with various technology providers to productize their Azure AI technologies as first-class Azure services. We work hard, have fun, and love what we do. What we are looking for: highly motivated and talented software engineers to improve performance, availability, scalability and user experience of Azure AI by applying cutting-edge open source & cloud technologies and engineering system across our entire software stack.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Write concise and clean code with unit tests  

• Design and build scalable, high-performance services that are highly reliable  

• Ability to work across teams in a large organization  

• Design and implement new features as well as add functionality to existing systems  

• Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement and deploy fixes  

• Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 14 hours per day for one week every 3 months)  

• Be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a great collaborator  

Qualifications

Required and Preferred:

• Characteristics: Smart, excellent analytics & problem-solving skills, quality mindset, passionate. 
• Education: BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related field  
• Languages: C#/Java/PowerShell/Python/Go 
• ~1/2 years of architecture, /system design/OO design/product development experience 
• Experiences with Web API/Load Testing/Security/Privacy 
• Demonstrated technical design, problem solving, coding and debugging skills 
• Experiences with Cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure 
• Experience with microservices architecture, Docker, Kubernetes 
• Experience with Git, Azure DevOps or other Engineer System.

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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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 and every two years thereafter.