Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is a leading technology company known for its innovative solutions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Storage team, focused on developing scalable and durable cloud-based storage solutions. The role involves collaborating with hardware and firmware teams, mentoring engineers, and driving the design and implementation of the Azure Archive Storage Service.
Responsibilities
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios, including close collaboration with hardware and firmware partners to align service behavior with platform capabilities
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents and feature implementation for Azure Archive Storage Service, focusing on application- and service-layer solutions that integrate with lower-level storage interfaces
- Mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
- Provide insights which influence team direction and product design
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
- 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers
Skills
- 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
- OR equivalent experience
- 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
- 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 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 equivalent experience
- Exposure and experience in building systems that understand storage constructs
- Knowledge in storage media technology or experience with SCSI interfaces and drivers
- 6+ years programming experience in developing products and services, preferably in systems and backend, with a focus on application- and service-layer development
- Experience in scalable distributed services
- Ability to work with hardware and firmware teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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