ROP - Senior Software Engineer (Azure Firewall)

Blazing fast performance with incredibly high scale, availability and security to enable the most cutting-edge products on the web. Billions of requests per second and terabytes of bandwidth usage. Hundreds of millions of users. Are you up for a challenge? We are part of the Azure networking team responsible for designing, building and operating network connectivity, application load balancing and security. These services include Application Gateway, Web Application Firewall and Azure Firewall. Our team's innovations are well recognized in the cloud and networking industry.  

Firewall is cloud native construct in Azure that provides L4-L4 filtering capabilities with support for URL filtering, threat Intel based protection from malicious sources, malware protection and viruses. While it is predominantly used as a perimeter control to guard off attack from Internet, it is also widely used for East-West communication between the VNets or subnets where deep introspection is needed. Premium SKU of firewall supports IDS (Intrusion Detection) and IPS (Intrusion Prevention). We embrace Open Source (both using and contributing) and write code (C/C++/C#/GoLang/RUST) in both Windows and Linux platforms. The developer will participate in architecture, design of various components, and ensure a timely execution of the features with high quality. The developer will own the component end-to-end, including testing, managing cross team dependencies as well as monitoring and alerting for the deployed component. The position will involve extensive internal and external collaborations with other Azure/Microsoft teams. 

We are looking for engineering talent (at all levels) to design, build and operate hyper-scale product – Azure Firewall. Our team is looking for software engineers who are searching for a challenge to design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed systems in an agile environment. 

Relevant details at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall/overview  

By applying to this role, you will be considered for additional roles with similar qualification.

Locations : Bangalore, Hyderabad, Noida

Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. 
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. 

• 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 initiates 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 the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with (including but not limited to) any of the following networking protocols:    
  • Layer7:Application (HTTP, HTTPS)   
  • Layer4:Transport & security (TCP/UDP, TLS,VPN)   
  • Layer3:IPv4, IPv6 and routing     

• Proficient computer science fundamentals, fluent in concepts like multi-threading and asynchronous programming, good grasp of system design, data structures and algorithms 

• Experience in one of C#, C++, Golang, JAVA, RUST 

• Proficient skills in Distributed systems and building cloud services  

• Experience with creating and operating distributed services in Azure/AWS/GCP and/or competitive offerings  

• Familiarity with Application (HTTP, HTTPS), transport & security (TCP/UDP, TLS) protocols

Keywords  

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#AzureIndia   

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