Job Description

Have you ever imagined a world with an infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone? A place where everyone in the world can easily access their data from anywhere at any time via any means (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, PCs, smart devices, etc.). Did you ever desire a universally accessible storage system to record all the knowledge known to mankind 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?If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is what you are looking for. We are building Microsofts 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 Exabytes of data stored, and are designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale to support demand growth for the coming years.As a Software Engineer II in the Azure Storage team, you will build, improve and support highly scalable, performant services that deliver highly reliable, secure and available access to storage for our customers. You will face challenges of monitoring, analyzing, and designing for ever-growing data needs of our customers and for ensuring data privacy, protection and compliance. This opportunity will allow you to develop your technical skills in cloud services and storage, accelerate career growth, and provide an opportunity to work in a highly dynamic, flexible, and globally distributed team.Microsofts 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 and implement

• new features and enhancements for Azure Storage services to enable new hardware designs using best practices and industry standards;
• AND new features for the storage performance measurement and analysis platform.
• Debug and troubleshoot complex issues across multiple software components that block us from enabling new Hardware technologies.
• Analyze large scale performance measurement data to find bottlenecks in the software or hardware.
• Optimize and improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and security of the software.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and customers to gather requirements, provide feedback, and deliver solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and quality criteria.
• Document and communicate the design and architecture of the software.
• 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.

Qualifications:Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunication, 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 of experience with

• any NoSQL database, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc,
• AND RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and data structures,
• AND planning, scheduling and delivering high quality software features.

Other Qualifications:

• 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, Electronics and Telecommunication, 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, Electronics and Telecommunication, 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.
• Experience in systems programming, operating systems, distributed systems, databases, cloud services including high-performance distributed storage and networking.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the .#azurecorejobs #AzStorageIDC

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