Software Engineer

Overview

Microsoft Azure Storage is a highly distributed, massively scalable, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage platform. Azure storage already runs at Exascale (storing Exabytes of data) and we will scale our designs over the next decade to support Zettascale (storing Zettabytes of data). Within Azure Storage, the Ultra Disk team provides next-generation block storage platform for the most demanding cloud storage workloads. If delivering the fastest block storage platform in the cloud using cutting edge technology sounds interesting, we may have the job for you!

As a Software Engineer in the Azure Storage team you will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining a block storage solution that handles massive amounts of data efficiently. This opportunity will allow you to collaborate with cross functional teams to design storage solutions that meet performance availability and durability. You will be responsible for writing clean, efficient and scalable code, creating technical documentation, API specifications, operation procedures etc. As part of our commitment to work-life balance, this role offers upto 50% Work from Home.

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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.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
  

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.
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• OR related technical field AND 1+ year(s) 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 with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years experience in designing and building large scale distributed systems.
• 1+ years experience in cloud backend development and operation, including performance, reliability, resilience, and scale-out.
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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