Microsoft Azure Storage is building a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system designed to scale out and serve the entire world. The team is focused on building the next generation of Safety Services that will enable Azure storage to scale 100x over the coming decade, addressing challenges related to durability, availability, and concurrency for a distributed system.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- 2+ years of experience managing high performing software engineering teams that have a track record of shipping quality products and services with high reliability.
- 4+ years of experience and/or subject matter expertise with multi-threaded/parallel programming, storage or file systems, and distributed systems.
- 2+ years of demonstrated excellence in software architecture, engineering and coding practices, data structures and algorithms, and testing, debugging, and analytical skills.
- 2+ years of demonstrated ability to plan, schedule and deliver reliable and performant software.
- 4+ years proficiency in people management experience.
- technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp Java
Responsibilities
- Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
- Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.
- Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
- Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
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.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
- Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
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