Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage

Are you excited about the possibility of changing the world by working on the largest Cloud Storage service? Come and join the Azure Storage team and contribute in revolutionizing it! 

The service hosts data of the largest companies in the world; supports all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses, including Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Teams, and Bing; and has scaled to store exabytes of customer data, with the roadmap looking even better in terms of growth. 

Usage of Azure Storage ranges drastically - from hot access such as disks, to millisecond access such as video streaming data, to cold data such as archival data, and to hyperscale access, big data, machine learning, and many more! Each workload brings a new set of challenges and characteristics with formidable problems to solve! 

We are striving to turn Azure Storage into a ubiquitous cloud storage service that provides the best way to store data for any modern and pre-existing application at large scale. We work towards providing our customers with a highly reliable cloud storage service with performance guarantees at a low cost. You can refer to the following here for the Azure Storage offerings. 

We are looking to hire a detail-oriented Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage to design, implement and ship new customer facing, reliability and scale features as part of the Azure Object Storage Front End team, a fundamental team for one of our core layers of the Azure Storage stack. Azure Storage front service is not UI but is an infrastructure platform that exposes all the abstraction of Azure Storage such as VM Disks, Object Storage (Block Blob, Append Blob), ADLS (Azure Data Lake Service) Gen 2, Cloud SAN, SFTP, NFS to our customers. It is also responsible for all security, DDOS protection, noisy neighborhood isolation, authorization for the Azure Storage service and implementing the exposed protocol. As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Storage, you will help drive and improve the reliability and performance of the service.  

This role will involve design, implementing, and shipping product code that scales to the largest and most demanding storage and latency requirements on the planet. This opportunity will allow you to work with and influence dozens of teams in different geographical locations around the world, so you will make an impact both to people within the company and outside! 

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

• Drive features end to end from inception to production (design, code, deploy, measure and iterate) with focus on system and distributed programming 

• Deliver impact on one of the fastest growing services in Azure that is critical to the Microsoft Big Data, AI and Cloud Services strategy    

• Collaborate with world class engineers to set the next service architecture which will help us tackle 100x growth 

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on