Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage

Overview

Are you interested in shaping the future of cloud storage services as a Senior Software Engineer? Join the Azure Storage team, where we are advancing planet-scale cloud storage solutions. This team plays a key role in hosting data for some of the world's largest organizations and supports Microsoft's core online services such as Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Microsoft Teams, and Bing.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will help scale infrastructure to manage exabytes of customer data. The work spans a wide range of challenges, from high-frequency access to long-term archival storage. You will contribute to the development of innovative cloud storage technologies while maintaining performance and reliability across diverse workloads.

In this role, you will design, debug, and deploy new features that enhance the Azure Storage service. You will collaborate with engineers across the globe to address challenges of scale and service quality. This includes leading efforts to automate operations, improve performance, and reduce costs.

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

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for scenarios and translate them into scalable design solutions.
• Drive the identification of dependencies and contribute to the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverage your subject-matter expertise to partner with project managers and guide your workgroup's project plans, release schedules, and work items.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitor systems for degradation or downtime, alert stakeholders, and initiate recovery actions for both simple and complex issues.
• Guide other engineers by developing and following operational playbooks and participating in on-call rotations.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to emerging trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance at scale.

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#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ year(s) experience applying software engineering best practices, including:
  • Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms.
  • Proficiency in coding, testing, debugging, and analytical problem-solving.
  • Planning, scheduling, and delivering high-quality software solutions.
• 2+ year(s) experience working with distributed systems and large-scale storage, including:
  • Multi-threaded and parallel programming techniques.
  • Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) principles, including understanding of HTTP methods such as POST and PATCH, and status codes like 409 (Conflict) and 412 (Precondition Failed).

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:

• 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 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 equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience driving cross-team initiatives and service reliability, including:
  • • Acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor and restore systems during degradation or downtime.
    • Collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and develop design documentation.
    • Leading efforts to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance through continuous learning and adoption of new technologies.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.