Overview

Azure Storage Fundamentals team is looking for a talented and highly motivated software engineer to design and develop the next generation of our storage backend. We are 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. We continue to have tremendous hockey stick growth; we have many Exabyte data stored and are designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale to support demand growth for the coming years. We are looking for enthusiastic candidates who love to learn, have a passion for writing high quality software and enjoy collaborating with a dynamic team.
As a Software Engineer (Azure Core) in the Azure Storage Fundamentals Team, you will help solve reliability and scale requirements of Inner Development Loop as we bring new teams to work together under storage-based designs into the Azure Cloud. You will have the opportunity to make high-impact changes daily as you work and integrate with software that will enable the next generation of hyper-scale storage systems. This position will be involved with installing, maintaining and automating Azure Storage repositories, pipelines, creating and improving test automations, and investigating networking and deployment configuration scenarios.

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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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Powershell, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Midlevel experience with understanding of inner development loop, build systems, and compilers, including troubleshooting pipelines and deployments.
Handson experience with compilers such as Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC), build engines such as Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild), and DevOps pipelines.

Other Qualifications:

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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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