Azure Storage, the core of Microsoft's Azure Cloud, provides 10 exabytes of capacity across 50 regions, 100+ data centers, and over 1000 storage clusters. It powers millions of virtual machines, holds millions of hours of video, billions of photos, and vast amounts of analytics data.
As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will play a key role in defining the technical direction of the most complex pieces of Azure Storage, while delivering continued improvements as well as pathbreaking features at a high quality. In addition, you will work on the latest server technologies and highly distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency and debuggability.
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services
- Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions
- Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis
- Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives and driving measurable impact through innovation and execution excellence
- Infuse AIOps practices to drive productivity, operational excellence, observability, incident detection, accurate root-cause analysis and mitigation
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND min 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications / Ideal candidate:
- Master'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, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience with:
- Developing production software
- System design, algorithmic skills, and data structures
- Debugging, testing, and problem-solving
- Designing, building and running large scale and highly available Cloud services or distributed systems
- Automation, performance, and building highly available distributed systems at scale
- Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layer
Other Requirements:
- 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
- On-call requirements for this role
- 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:
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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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, or Python (or equivalent experience)
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements including Microsoft Cloud Background Check
- On-call requirements for the role
- Master's Degree in Computer Science and 8+ years experience OR Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years experience (preferred)
- 5+ years developing production software
- 5+ years system design, algorithmic skills, and data structures
- 5+ years debugging, testing, and problem-solving
- 5+ years designing, building and running large-scale, highly available cloud services or distributed systems
- 5+ years automation, performance optimization, and operating distributed systems at scale
- Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers
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