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Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at MicrosoftDublin, Ireland May 18, 2020Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. As a member of our engineering team, you will play an integral part in making that happen, navigating us into the future and impacting the lives of people all around the world.Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers are Microsoft Future Navigators.In order to make our delivery reliable, we need you -- someone who is interested in becoming a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).SREs build, monitor, and maintain the systems and infrastructure that ensure our customers can quickly access their data and run workloads whenever and wherever they need to. Our work is key to the success of many Microsoft services.ResponsibilitiesThe scale of our operations is enormous. We need people who enjoy analyzing complicated problems, coming up with creative solutions, and working in focused teams to build things no one has thought of before, all in the service of production reliability.Responsibilities will include:Communicate effectively and partner well with other disciplines of the project team to deliver high quality solutions from ideas to production code.Write clean and thorough design documents and code that exemplify quality, simplicity, and maintainability.Be a mentor for the software lifecycle process.Design systems that prioritize the customer perspective and experience.Quickly adapt and apply new technologies, tools, methods, and processes from both internal and external sources.Design and influence design, implementation, and architectural direction.Drive architectural consolidation and simplification.Exemplify the Microsoft values of leveraging the work of others and helping others be successful through your behaviors and actions.We would like to talk to you if you:Are interested in distributed systems and working with high-scale services.Like to work in a fast-moving environment and you aren't afraid to change things to make them better.Enjoy new technological challenges and solving hard problems.Believe that a team working well together is truly smarter than the single smartest person on that team.Aspire to grow as a person, as a teammate, and as an engineer.QualificationsWe try not to have too many formal qualifications, since mindset and demonstrated ability are more important, but previous successful candidates have often had some or all of the following:Background in Computer Science equivalent to a B.Sc.5+ years of software development; automation-related experience valued in particular. Scripting languages such as bash, python, and PowerShell, or compiled languages such as C, C# and Go are most relevant but others are acceptable.Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes generally, microservices, and so on.Associated troubleshooting skills, including the ability to follow RPC call-chains across arbitrary network steps. Consequent understanding of monitoring in distributed systems.Deep understanding of operating system level concepts such as processes, memory allocation, and the network stack; understanding of how applications are affected by the above, and ability to debug same.Experience with working in a team, including coordinating large projects, communicating well, and exercising initiative when presented with problems.Generally speaking, practical experience running large scale online systems is always an advantage.Benefits and PerksIndustry leading healthcareSavings and investmentsGiving programsEducational resourcesMaternity and paternity leaveOpportunities to network and connectDiscounts on products and servicesGenerous time awayInterested in this position?See "How to Apply Section" belowHow to ApplyPosition is expired. Thanks for your interest. #J-18808-Ljbffr