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 storage needs.
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)
- Skilled in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and analytical problem-solving
- Demonstrates a disciplined approach to reliability, performance, and architecture
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
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- 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
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Shows emotional intelligence and patience when collaborating with external and partner teams
