With growing need to accelerate app delivery, provide intelligent routing and secure customer workloads with minimal possible latency at the edge, Microsofts Azure Froontdoor team (AFD) is growing to meet these challenges and looking for experienced engineers to join agile and diverse engineering teams within AFD. Azure Frontdoor infrastructure handles terabits of traffic and millions of requests per second with unparalleled reliability. The team operates across the entire stack, from intelligent network routing to Layer 7 content delivery and protection. Our mission is to deliver exceptional customer experiences by offering Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection at the edge, HTTP-level Content Delivery Network (CDN) capabilities, global load balancing, and Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection against DDoS and other security threats. This enables our customers to maintain high availability and consistency for their workloads. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing globally distributed, scalable, and low-latency services that provide application acceleration and service protection for key partners such as Office 365, Xbox, Azure, LinkedIn, and Azure customers. You will work closely with both internal and cross-geographical teams to ensure optimal efficiency and deploy highly instrumented code, generating critical metrics across millions of requests per second and data from thousands of global servers. This role offers a unique opportunity to innovate in the rapidly evolving cloud space, with the chance to contribute to open-source projects and work across multiple platforms (Windows/Linux) and languages (C/C++/C#/Rust). 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. up to 100% work from home in the U.S.A.Required Qualifications: <ul><li>Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Rust, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python<ul><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li>Prior experience with building and releasing cloud scale services.</li></ul>Other Requirements: <ul><li>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: </li><ul><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul></ul> Preferred Qualifications: <ul><li>Experience in any of the following areas: Networking Layer 7 data plane, distributed control plane, large scale web applications, asynchronous programming model, distributed Key Value store.</li><li>1+ Years of distributed networking experience.</li></ul> Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay" target="_blank">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a>  Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 7th, 2024.  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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest" target="_blank">Accommodation request form</a>. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azurecorejobs<ul><li>Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.</li><li>Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.</li><li>Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).</li><li>Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroups project plans, release plans, and work items.</li><li>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 initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.</li><li>Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.</li><li>Embody our <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values" target="_blank">Culture </a>and <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture" target="_blank">Values</a></li></ul>