Skype - Palo Alto, CA - Software Engineer
Fulltime, H1B
We are building large-scale elastic services to support the evolution of the Skype network.  The important part is that we have a lot of fun building and owning distributed systems and are looking for engineers who can come in and push their first feature to production within a few days of starting and who can also help us get that duration down to hours.  The stack is primarily azure/.net/C#, although there is some node.js in the house and when we do UIs we don't use biggish server-side stacks.  But when we do server-side systems we run them on 1000s of instances and support 10^5 req/sec all day, every day.
The key is that we own our own systems and hence our destiny.  You can't ask for anything more than that.
You can contact me at f00biebletch at gmail (quicker) or you can go through the official posting (slower): <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&#38;pg=0&#38;so=&#38;rw=1&#38;jid=108925&#38;jlang=EN&#38;pp=SS" >https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&#38;pg=0&#...</a>
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