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Have you ever imagined the world with an infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone? A place where everyone in the world can easily access their books/music/photos/video/any data from anywhere at any time via any means. Did you ever desire a universally accessible storage system to record all the knowledge known to mankind, to keep all the books/music/videos ever created, or to store all the data collected from all the scientists in the world for them to collaborate upon? Do you want to be part of a team that strives to bring these to reality? Do you like solving storage performance and scale problems for next generation workloads in Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing?

If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is what you are looking for. We are building Microsoft’s cloud storage solution - Microsoft Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world. We continue to have tremendous hockey stick growth, we have many Exabyte’s of data stored, and are designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale to support demand growth for the coming years.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed storage, more specifically in Object Storage . We are building the next generation Object Storage capabilities in Azure. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for setting the technical roadmap guiding the team on executing on this roadmap. This opportunity will allow you to thrive while solving challenges related to performance, availability, and concurrency for a distributed system.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain and operate services with high traffic, high resiliency with millions of requests across multiple global regions.

• Implement the next generation of enhancements in the Core Azure Blob Storage service.

• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.

• Lead technical projects and model the culture of the team.

• Responding to and mitigating any live site issues impacting customers.

• Proficient troubleshooting (debugging) skills.

• Ability to take projects from beginning to end with little direct supervision.

• Teamwork and coordination skills with ability to create clarity from ambiguity.

Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years programming experience in developing products and services in systems and backend.

• 4+ years of experiences in building quality products and scalable distributed services, and designing and building large scale distributed systems.

• 4+ years of experiences in cloud backend development and operation, including performance, reliability, resilience, and scale-out.

Other Requirements:

• 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: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience building distributed systems and large-scale storage

• Experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming

• Experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with releant testing, debugging and analytical skills

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 10 th 2024.

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