Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Storage team, which builds and operates persistent cloud storage for Azure. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing hyperscale distributed file-system and storage solutions while improving their availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.

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
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience
• • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Java
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience
• • 3+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills
• • 3+ years of experience in Storage, File-Systems, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, or Networking (TCP & RDMA) at scale
• • Experience in Operating systems internals, production diagnostics, and large-scale service operations, with the ability to lead complex investigations, drive root-cause resolution, and improve system reliability through engineering