Golang / Go Job: Software Engineer

Software Engineer at Microsoft

🇺🇸 United States › California › Sunnyvale   (Posted Aug 30 2019)

About the company
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.

Job description
Microsoft Azure is in the cloud race to win it! We are part of the Azure networking team responsible for designing, building and operating critical network services that will help us differentiate from our fierce competitors and generate new revenue. We are responsible for enabling enterprises to connect their on-premise networks and devices to the cloud, in the most secure and performant way possible. Our team also builds application delivery services such as load balancing and firewalls. At the core of these services is a solid SDN and NFV infrastructure that we continuously innovate on to improve agility, scalability, reliability and cost effectiveness of our services.

Responsibilities

We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about building infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems that are responsible for high impact networking services.
We seek candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

Strong expertise in Container platforms and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc.,)
Experience with reverse-proxies such as Envoy and Nginx & data plane is a plus.
Experience with Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd etc) is a plus 

This is a highly visible role in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity for technical and career growth. Our team's innovations are well recognized in the cloud and networking industry.

Skills & requirements
Requirements:

BS or MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
Proficiency in one or more: Golang, C++, Java, C#,  gRPC, Protobufs 
Expertise in building large scale distributed systems and cloud services

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.

Apply now!