Job Opportunities at Microsoft

Responsibilities

You will work with a team of applied scientists and developers who are responsible for all stages of the research & development cycle including early ideation, design, implementation and scaling it internationally. You will be expected to work on many levels - from high level vision, to design and implementations of both self-contained components and large, team-oriented code bases. Your coding skills will be challenged writing scalable, distributed, and highly efficient components. You will also be responsible for monitoring live site to ensure rock-solid availability.

Your responsibilities will include shipping large-scale backend services that host complex models and algorithms to process critical user data. You will also be involved in developing offline processes to monitor, extract, index and build ML & NLP models. Collaborating with other engineers to build demos and apps to showcase these services is one of the ways in which you will be able to contribute new ideas. The development process is driven by gathering implicit signals from real users through online experimentation to learn and iterate on the next improvements in the product.

You will also have the opportunity to participate in frequent hackathons that allow you to work with many different teams around the world. The goal is to pursue high impact work to quickly deliver on critical areas that our users value, by delivering high quality features in a highly collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• You should have strong software design and development background with C#, C++ or Java (or similar languages like Python) with at least 7 years of experience.
• A BSc degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science (or related fields like Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics) is required. An MSc or PhD is not required, but a passion for continuously learning new skills and techniques is.
• You must have strong programming and algorithm design skills and real passion for data driven decision-making.
• Proven experience working on large scale web services would help you get started, while experience or interest in natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, or data mining area a big bonus.
• You also need strong verbal and written communication skills with excellent interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.

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. 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Every once in a while, a job comes along with the opportunity to positively affect all users of Microsoft products. If you’ve been waiting for that kind of opportunity to come along this may be the job for you.  

The Azure Identity team is searching for a software engineering leader who can define, build and evolve the new platform on which Azure Active Directory (AAD) services are built. The Identity organization is part of the Cloud & Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) organization and is responsible for driving the innovation in both cloud and on-premises software development providing identity management, authentication and authorization. The hybrid group, within the Identity organization, focuses on core scenarios like provisioning, health and hybrid scenarios. 

The entire Identity stack is built upon the data we handle and store about users, group and devices. Keeping this data updated and fresh, no matter where it originated (on premises system, SaaS apps) and no matter where it needs to be consumed (Office 365, Saas apps, Azure AD and on premises system) is at the heart of Microsoft’s cloud strategy and is our biggest asset to beating our competitors. User Data is where it all begins. Meeting these challenges requires building high scale, reliable and resilient services that will meet data freshness SLA. Our cloud services are built to meet the above challenges in a seamless way and we constantly challenge ourselves to stay ahead of our competitors in the identity space. We regularly collaborate with many teams across Microsoft as well as third party applications vendors to meet our demanding customer promises. 

Responsibilities

This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility. You will collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key customer solutions and the technology to support them.  

• Lead design and implementation of the future architecture for highly scalable, durable, low latency identity management systems.  
• Build an effective and agile development organization using industry leading best practices.  
• Lead the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.  
• Mentor and grow team members.  

We believe in enabling our team members to unlock their highest potential and invest a lot in building a collaborative and agile culture to achieve our business success.  Join us and be part of our path to the next level of awesomeness!!

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience    
• One or more of the following skills will be highly regarded:  
• Expertise in design, building and operating large scale distributed systems that can sustain rapid growth  
• Technical leadership, experience in high performing, agile teams  
• Drive changes across multiple teams in the Identity Organization  
• Great communication skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team  
• Expertise in any modern continuous delivery/deployment systems