[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage @Microsoft

Role Description

The Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running the persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure cloud. This role provides a unique opportunity to work on projects that will help support the scale of Azure Storage to the next level. If you like the challenges of large-scale distributed systems, love to work on new projects where you can define the work, scope, direction, and architect new solutions to make an impact on a massive product like Azure storage, this could be a position for you!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage who is passionate about distributed storage, specifically in the areas of Index management and/or Garbage Collection for distributed systems. The Azure Storage Index management engine runs on hundreds of thousands of servers, indexing data at exabyte scale while serving hundreds of millions of requests per second at low latency. The Azure Storage Garbage Collection defragments and reclaims unused data blocks within the storage system at exabyte scale with very efficient resource consumption.

To be successful in these areas, you must thrive while solving challenges related to durability, availability, and concurrency for a distributed system.

Responsibilities

• 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 return on investment (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 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

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience in large scale distributed systems and concurrent programming.

Requirements

• Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800.00 - $234,700.00 per year.
• 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 $160,200.00 - $261,000.00 per year.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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