The Azure Storage team is seeking individuals to help shape planet-scale cloud storage solutions, supporting data hosting for large organizations and Microsoft's core online services, while scaling to manage exabytes of customer data and solving challenges across the spectrum of data access and archival.
Requirements
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 5+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- 1+ year(s) experience working with distributed systems and large-scale storage environments
- Includes hands-on experience with multi-threaded and parallel programming
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), including distinctions between POST and PATCH methods and familiarity with Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status codes such as 409 (Conflict) and 412 (Precondition Failed)
- 1+ year(s) experience applying software engineering best practices and contributing to cross-team initiatives
- Skilled in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and analytical problem-solving
Responsibilities
- design, troubleshoot, and deliver new features that enhance the Azure Storage service
- work with engineers across the globe to address challenges of scale and reliability
- contribute to service quality improvements through automation
- ensure performance and cost efficiency
- Partners 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.
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Shows emotional intelligence and patience when collaborating with external and partner teams
- Motivated to drive enhancements across Azure Storage services
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
