Senior Software Engineer

Azure Batch is seeking Senior Software Engineers to join our Dublin team. Azure Batch powers large-scale compute workloads, enabling organizations to run millions of jobs in parallel. It supports High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads across industries such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), genomics, and climate modeling. We are building the next generation of solutions to deliver seamless access to cutting-edge compute, networking, and storage resources. Azure Batch processes billions of tasks monthly and is trusted by customers worldwide in workloads that accelerate drug discovery and AI/LLM advancements. Our team collaborates on secure, innovative, and scalable products that empower customers to orchestrate and manage HPC and AI workloads on Azure.

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and ROI.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiating actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated significant technical experience in cloud computing, distributed systems, and/or high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
• Demonstrated significant experience designing, building and deployment global scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated significant experience maintaining high service reliability and availability for global scale distributed systems.

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, or Python
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure cloud technology and Microsoft software development tools.
• Experience with Linux, containers, and related cloud-native open source technologies.
• Experience with high-performance computing workloads and/or job schedulers.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals.

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