Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage
United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering every person and organization on the planet. The Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage role involves building scalable and distributed storage solutions for demanding AI workloads, driving innovation through advanced technologies and ensuring high availability and durability of systems.
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Responsibilities
Lead identification of areas of innovation to excel at support of Artificial Intelligence AI workloads for our leading customers
Identify critical performance, efficiency, data availability and durability improvements necessary across the portfolio of storage offerings
Determine necessary improvement plans and their priorities and document work needed, including any dependencies
Hands-on leadership of the engineering work needed to drive performance and efficiency improvements and to drive innovative new features. Partner with the engineering teams responsible for the different offerings to ensure adoption and success
Develop or partner to drive innovation to enhance data durability, availability and failure tolerance across the storage fleet while minimizing impact on performance and cost
Develop and document new ideas and prototype them in partnership with others as needed. Work with appropriate stakeholders (Leadership Team, Product Management) to drive new ideas to success
Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt 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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Company
Microsoft
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