Parent | Sr. Software Engineer - Azure Storage

<div class="container-3Gm1a"><b>Overview</b><br><p>Are you passionate about shaping the future of cloud storage services? Join the Azure Storage team and be part of a revolutionary journey in planet-scale Cloud Storage solutions.  </p><p>As a member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in hosting data for some of the largest companies globally, supporting Microsoft's flagship online businesses, including Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Teams, and Bing. Together, we're scaling to handle exabytes of customer data, addressing diverse challenges from hot access to cold archival data, and driving innovation in cloud storage technologies. </p><p>As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Storage front end team, you'll be at the forefront of designing, debugging, and shipping new features to enhance the Azure Storage service. This opportunity offers you the chance to work on cutting-edge technology and tackle challenges of scale and criticality. You'll collaborate with world-class engineers globally, driving innovations to tackle 100x growth. Additionally, you'll contribute to the evolution of Azure Storage services, leading efforts to improve service quality through automation while ensuring strong performance guarantees at a low cost. Moreover, you'll have the flexibility for partial or full remote work, providing you with the freedom to achieve work-life balance. </p><p>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.</p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.</li><li>Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.</li><li>Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).</li><li>Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.</li><li>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.</li><li>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. </li></ul><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><p>Required Qualifications:</p><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>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<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li></ul></div><div><p>Other Requirements:</p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>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: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul></li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>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<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>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</li><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li></ul><p>#azurecorejobs</p></div></div> <br><br><p>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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year. </p><p></p> <p>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br><a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a></p><br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p> </div>

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