Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

16h

About The Position

The Microsoft Azure Storage team is building 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. The team is experiencing tremendous growth, managing exabytes of data, and designing systems for zettabyte scale. This role is for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about distributed storage, specifically in resource management across an entire geo-region. The Azure Storage Limitless and Cluster Resource Manager Team manages control and data plane operations for hundreds of thousands of servers at exabyte scale, serving hundreds of millions of requests per second at low latency. They provide semantics to virtualize customer accounts and physical hardware across geo-regions and maintain infrastructure for high-performance transfer of customer accounts. The Regional Scale Management or xLimitless team focuses on integrated resource management for smarter allocation of storage accounts and load balancing storage tenants on various resource dimensions (CPU, memory, IOPS, capacity) by migrating and virtualizing storage accounts. A core responsibility is to optimize Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for Azure Storage while enabling customers to scale without limits. The role involves designing, implementing, testing, and rolling out features at zettabyte scale across tens of thousands of clusters globally, including distributed load balancing, performance tuning, and massively parallel control plane features. Success requires thriving in solving issues related to durability, availability, and concurrency for distributed systems, with opportunities to make high-impact changes daily.

Requirements

• 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.
• 1+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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#, 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++, C#, or Java OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems, and experience and/or subject matter expertise with any of the following: multi-threaded or parallel programming, storage or file systems, and distributed systems.
• 1+ years of experience demonstrating excellence in software architecture, engineering and coding practices, data structures and algorithms, testing, debugging and analytical skills, and ability to plan, schedule, and deliver reliable and performant software.

Responsibilities

• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) 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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior