Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft develops Azure Storage, a highly distributed and scalable cloud storage platform, including next-generation block storage through its Ultra Disk team. The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement protocols and features for the durability, availability, scalability, and performance of backend distributed block storage, while contributing to a high-impact cloud storage engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
• Leads 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 cross-product features 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers

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 and C++
  • OR equivalent experience
• • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
• • 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 and C++
  • 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 and C++
  • OR equivalent experience
• • 4 years of experience in software delivery
• • Foundation in data structures and algorithms with experience in testing, debugging, and analytical skills
• • Experience in designing and building large scale distributed systems with background in cloud backend development and operations, including performance, reliability, resiliency, and scale-out
• • Experience with multi-threaded programming