Microsoft Azure Storage is looking to solve the problem of delivering the fastest block storage platform in the cloud using cutting edge technology, with a focus on data durability, availability, scalability, and performance of backend distributed block storage.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in data structures and algorithms with experience in testing, debugging, and analytical skills.
- 2+ years of experience with multi-threaded programming.
- Experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C or C++
- Experience in designing and building large scale distributed systems with experiences in cloud backend development and operations, including performance, reliability, resiliency, and scale-out.
- Experience with cloud storage platforms
- Knowledge of Azure Storage and its components
- Experience with backend distributed block storage
Responsibilities
- Collaborates 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.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- 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, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
- Embody our culture and values
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
- Ability to work on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
- Ability to adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns
- Ability to embody our culture and values
