Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Storage Platform in OneDrive/SharePoint

Overview

OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) are rapidly growing services at the center of Microsoft's cloud, reaching almost every part of the company, like Windows and Office. The File Storage team within ODSP is responsible for ensuring the integrity, availability, and performance of all file data stored in OneDrive and SharePoint, managing billions of files and exabytes of storage at global scale. As an infrastructure team, we power every SharePoint feature that relies on file storage and retrieval, with a relentless focus on reliability, efficiency, and data durability. Our mission is to deliver a seamless and trustworthy experience for customers by building resilient systems that safeguard data and optimize performance across massive distributed environments.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you would be a part of a team that can fundamentally change the way that millions of people use their devices and interact with the most important content in their lives. You would work with a team of amazing engineers, product managers, and designers, and work closely with other teams across Microsoft to deliver large scale, distributed architectures, and features to meet OneDrive and SharePoint's core infrastructure needs.

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

• Design and deliver systems that enable partners and ISVs to migrate from other cloud providers.
• Improve core systems performance and efficiencies, and ensure zero customer impact throughout the change management cycle.
• Deliver systems to meet our business continuity planning goals, provide telemetry for optimizing the service and drive our response time for detecting and resolving service issues down.

Embody the Microsoft culture and values .

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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience coding, debugging, and problem-solving cloud scale components.
• Proven experience leading and managing projects involving multiple engineers.

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:

• Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.
• Experience designing cloud-scale services and server/service management features.
• Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns.
• Familiar with secure software design concepts.
• Proven track record of delivering projects that include multiple components.
• Ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals.

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.