Optical Engineer

The Azure Optical Networking Team is growing, and we’re looking for a creative and hard-working software developer to help build the world’s best SDN platform.

All Microsoft cloud services run over the Azure Optical Network. With more-than 50,000 miles of owned optical fiber carrying Petabits of capacity, it’s one of the largest optical networks on the planet. To accommodate tremendous growth with perfect service availability, we’re investing in physical layer automation controlled by software-defined management and operations.

Working closely with partner teams in Azure Networking, you’ll be a critical part of developing the large-scale that drive our network, such as zero-touch provisioning, auto-remediation of failures (e.g. fiber cuts, undersea cable failures, hardware failures), topology validation, and hardware data models with streaming telemetry. You will get the rare opportunity to see your code in action from the front lines by supporting the Optical Network in the dev/ops model.

Skills & Qualifications

Experience Required

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