Software Engineer II - Azure Storage

Overview

We are looking for a Software Engineer II - Azure Storage who is passionate about building and optimizing a world-class distributed file system. If you love large-scale distributed systems, love to work on new projects where you can define the work, scope, direction, and architect new solutions to make an impact on a massive product like Azure Storage, this could be the position for you! You will have an opportunity to make high-impact changes on a daily basis as you build a hyperscale storage system.

You would be joining a talented, highly collaborative team, with responsibility for engineering the lowest, most fundamental layers of the Azure storage service. You will be working on the next-generation storage platform being built on storage servers with Data Processing Units (DPU). The role brings exposure to cutting-edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed system technologies, with broad opportunity to influence both the business and the industry. The team is responsible for the meta-data service as well as storing the data across storage servers while ensuring high availability, reliability, durability, and cost efficiencies.

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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 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Java OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills.
• 1+ year(s) of proficiency in Storage, File-Systems, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Networking, or Applications at scale.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master'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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) proficiency in building and operating services at scale.

Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• File Systems
• Azure Storage
• C/C++/Java Development
• High Availability
• Scalability
• Reliability Engineering
• Data Structures & Algorithms
• System Architecture
• Networking