Software Engineer II

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

11h

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 and is designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale. This role is for a Software Engineer II on the Azure Storage Armada Platform team, which powers Azure Storage services and provides elasticity and scalability. The ideal candidate is passionate about distributed storage and systems, comfortable in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, and thrives on innovation, growth, and learning. The position involves solving challenges related to scale and reliability for a distributed system and making high-impact changes to build a hyperscale storage system.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or C# OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience with distributed systems.
• 2+ years of on-call experience.
• 2+ years of experience with technical problem solving and debugging skills.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

What This Job Offers

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