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Are you excited about the possibility of changing the world by working on the largest Cloud Storage service? Come and join the Azure Storage team and contribute in revolutionizing it!

The service hosts data of the largest companies in the world; supports all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses, including Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Teams, and Bing; and has scaled to store exabytes of customer data, with the roadmap looking even better in terms of growth.

Usage of Azure Storage ranges drastically - from hot access such as disks, to millisecond access such as video streaming data, to cold data such as archival data, and to hyperscale access, big data, machine learning, and many more! Each workload brings a new set of challenges and characteristics with formidable problems to solve!

We are striving to turn Azure Storage into a ubiquitous cloud storage service that provides the best way to store data for any modern and pre-existing application at large scale. We work towards providing our customers with a highly reliable cloud storage service with secure performance guarantees at a low cost. 

We are striving to turn Azure Storage into not only the ubiquitous Cloud storage service but the only way to store data for any modern and pre-existing application at large scale.  

Our mission is to build the world's most secure and dependable cloud storage platform. Powered by cutting-edge distributed systems technology, our platform is designed to set a new standard for scale, reliability and security in the cloud storage space.

As a Software Engineer II- Azure Storage, you will help design, implement and ship new features as part of the Azure Storage front team, a fundamental team for one of our core layers of the Azure Storage stack. Azure Storage front service exposes all the abstraction of Azure Storage such as Virtual Maachine Disks, Object Storage (Block Blob, Append Blob), Azure Data Lake Service (ADLS), Gen 2 to our customers. It is also responsible for all security, Denial of Service Attack (DDOS) protection, noisy neighborhood isolation, authorization for the Azure Storage service and implementing the exposed protocol. As a Software Engineer on Azure Storage, you will also help drive and improve the reliability and performance of the service. This role will involve design, implementing, and shipping product code that scales to the largest and most demanding storage and latency requirements on the planet. This opportunity will allow you to work with and influence dozens of teams in different geographical locations around the world, so you will make an impact both to people within the company and outside!

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.

This role does not provide relocation assistance.

Responsibilities

• Drive features End to End (E2E) from inception to production (design, code, deploy, measure and iterate) with focus on system and distributed programming.

• Deliver impact on one of the fastest growing services in Azure that is critical to the Microsoft Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud Services strategy.

• Collaborate with world class engineers to set the next service architecture which will help us tackle 10x growth.

• 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, usability, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

• 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 2+ 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 experiences with multi-threaded/async programming and a passion for distributed systems and large-scale storage.  

• 2+ years experiences in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms including testing, debugging and analytical skills. 

• 2+ years experiences in Data Analytics and Machine Learning.

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 4+ 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 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Ex.perience on reliability, performance and architecture. 

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 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 $120,900 - $198,600 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 8, 2024.

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