Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Welcome to Microsoft Azure Storage - a super scalable, distributed, ubiquitously accessible cloud storage system. Designed to scale and serve the data storage needs of entire world. We've had tremendous hockey-stick growth with many Exabytes of data stored. Come join us solving unique challenges needed to march to Zettabyte scale and beyond.

A distributed system this large requires a creative change management service that rolls out code and configuration to datacenters around the world. A service that understands customers' demand for high availability and adjusts speed and safety automatically. An intelligent system that manages millions of machine updates across the globe 24/7.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Configuration team, you'll have the opportunity to make high impact changes daily. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your technical and cross-organizational collaboration skills as you work with various other teams across Azure Storage.

Microsoft's 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

• Designing and building distributed systems that interact between different cloud technology services and infrastructures.
• Conducting research and maintain an awareness of industry knowledge and identifies ways the information can be applied.
• Mentoring other teammates and cross teams, providing technical direction for the engineering organization.
• Writing high quality documentations including design documents, troubleshooting guides and software specs.
• Participating in onboarding, code/design reviews, and regular meetings with the engineering teams that develop and manage those products.
• Designs, develops, and maintains telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools that detail operations metrics.
• Conduct deployment of the software products through Azure DevOps and CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) process.
• Responds to incidents during regular on-call rotations. Improves and optimizes supportability of the product through innovative ideas.
• Monitor performance and reliability of services and troubleshoot problem areas as needed.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science 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 equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• 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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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