Are you excited about the possibility of working on the largest Cloud Storage service in the world? Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing and running the Persistent Cloud Storage for Microsoft Azure Cloud. Azure Storage consists of a Storage Platform which currently powers five different storage services – Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSQL Key Value store), Queue Storage, Data Lake Storage, File Storage and Disk Storage. We are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud. The service hosts data from some of the largest companies in the world plus supports all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Teams and Bing and has scaled to store exabytes of customer data with the roadmap looking even better in terms of growth.

Responsibilities

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers with a strong and proven record of top-notch design and code development skills.  This position 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.  The candidate will work on the latest server technologies and highly distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency and debuggability.

If you are ready to take on the challenge of solving impactful and hard problems, designing and building complex logic and debugging live systems, then this is the position for you.  Thought leadership, the ability to communicate up, down and across, and a strong commitment to our customers will be required.

Qualifications

To be successful, you must thrive on solving problems related with data and index management at a very large scale in a multi-tenant environment. You must have passion for storage and distributed systems.

The position requires:

• Strong distributed systems knowledge
• 3+ years of building scalable system software and/or Services
• Experience in coding in C++, C#, Java etc.
• Hands on development experience for large scale system, designing and writing code.
• Passion for customers
• Good collaboration skills
• Prior experience in the data management would be ideal.
• BS, MS, PHD or equivalent experience

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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