Are you interested in distributed systems, scalability, and durability? Are you ready to solve the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage? If so, the Azure Storage team is the perfect fit for you. We build Microsoft’s cloud storage solution -- Azure Storage -- a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world.
Azure Storage is growing its development team focused on providing the world's lowest cost cloud-based storage. Platform engineering and Cluster Resource management teams are responsible for building & managing tenants at internet scale ensuring efficient use of resources, maintaining high availability, and supporting regional convergence across Azure Storage. We are looking for software engineers interested in helping us fulfil our vision of providing a storage service capable of satisfying the worlds ever increasing demand for cloud-based storage for many years to come on the application team.
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Responsibilities
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
- Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- More than 15 years of experience, including at least 10 years in technical roles involving large scale, web- based system development
- Expertise in C/C++/Java, building and deploying SaaS applications
- Masters or bachelor's in computer science or main-stream Engineering
- Experience in building high-scale transactional and data platform backed systems from scratch
- Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptability to evolving priorities, and the ability to lead a team while working autonomously
- Proven management experience with highly diverse and global teams
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
- An ability to think strategically, look around corners, and create a vision for the current quarter, the year, and five years down the road.
- A relentless pursuit of great customer experiences and continuous improvements to the product.
- 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#, and Java
- 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#, and Java
- OR equivalent experience
- 4+ years people management experience
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded programming and distributed computing concepts
- Expertise in building and deploying SaaS applications
- Experience in building high-scale transactional and data platform backed systems from scratch and large scale, web- based system development
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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
- More than 15 years of experience, including at least 10 years in technical roles involving large scale, web-based system development
- Expertise in C, C++, and Java and building and deploying SaaS applications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or mainstream Engineering
- Experience building high-scale transactional and data platform backed systems from scratch
- Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable to evolving priorities while leading a team autonomously
- Proven management experience with highly diverse and global teams
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to think strategically and create short- and long-term technical vision
- Relentless pursuit of great customer experiences and continuous product improvements
- Preferred: Master's degree with 8+ years engineering experience, or Bachelor's with 12+ years, or equivalent experience
- Preferred: 4+ years people management experience
- Preferred: Understanding of data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded programming and distributed computing concepts
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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