Senior Software Engineer, Azure Storage

Are you passionate about distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability? Are you interested in solving the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage? If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is the perfect fit for you. We build Microsoft’s cloud storage solution - Microsoft Azure Storage - which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world. We continue to have tremendous hockey stick growth with many Exabytes of data stored and are designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale to support demand growth for the coming years.

The Microsoft Azure Storage team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with design, coding, and testing skills, to develop strategy and automation to validate Azure's massive distributed storage system. We are looking for talented software engineers who are customer obsessed and passionate about creating high quality end to end experiences that delight customers. You will have an opportunity to make high impact changes on a daily basis as you work on a hyperscale storage system that may indirectly or directly be used daily by your friends and family.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and operate scalable, low latency and high throughput cloud services and frameworks to stress storage backend,
• Work on complex and critical cloud scale storage features integration. Play a crucial role in the product quality by designing end to end scenario validation
• Experiment, study and analyze the system behavior, health under different load conditions.
• Take an active role and partner with peer teams and external partners to ensure new storage features meeting target availability, security and reliability.
• Drive cross organization Quality initiatives to streamline release quality gates and release pipeline.
• Being part of Azure core team, work on the product code base to improve its test-ability, diagnostic-ability, debug-ability and overall product health for the storage system.

• Embody our 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#, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experiences in testing systems at a large scale.

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#, or Java
  • 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#, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• A passion for large scale storage, high quality code, distributed systems, and cloud services.
  
• Competent in software engineering practices, coding and foundation in data structures, algorithms with testing, debugging and analytical skills.
  
• Proficient understanding of QA life cycle, methodologies, and best practices. Ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software.
• 3+ years of experience building scalabl