Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
remote work
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 United States, New York, New York | |
 Jan 07, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the System Operations team, part of Xandr's Real Time Bidding platform. The platform operates a hybrid environment of global datacenters and Azure. Software engineers on the System Operations team ensure this platform operates efficiently and error-free with automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and scales the toolset and resources to match platform growth.As a Senior Software Engineer on the System Operations team, you are responsible for ensuring the operational integrity of tens of thousands of systems distributed globally. These systems include DNS, DHCP, Puppet, Kubernetes, Docker, CDN properties, NGINX load balancer clusters, and all the automation and APIs in between that allow us to manage them. The System Operations team ensures all components on the platform work together seamlessly to handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second. With such a diverse technology landscape, automation and consistency is key here. You will develop and utilize tools that ensures the right changes are deployed to the intended systems in an automated fashion. There will be plenty of opportunities leverages your ability in finding the most efficient solutions to manage our growing technology stack, as well as expand your experience working with, among other things, data center management tooling, provisioning automation, configuration management, orchestration, and cybersecurity. This opportunity allows flexible hours and remote work. 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.
ResponsibilitiesEngineer solutions for various projects and operational needs required by our customers. Perform code reviews to changes to the infrastructure configuration files and updates to tools libraries and APIs (Application Programming Interface).Manage remote servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.Provide support to technical and non-technical customers from various constituencies.Investigate and troubleshoot issues with hardware failures, application performance and software debugging. Coordinate and engage with other teams during incidents or planned maintenance. Handle escalations on technical issues and operations from global team members.Maintain ZFS (Zettabyte File System) storage clusters to ensure data redundancy and business continuity.Provide mentorship, coaching and guidance to teammates.Maintain documentation for the infrastructure software stack. | |