Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage

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Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running the persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure cloud. We are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud and host data from some of the largest companies in the world plus all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Teams, and Bing.

Azure Cloud has one of the highest number of data centers amongst all the cloud providers. Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, is designed to scale out and serve the entire world with hundreds of thousands of devices in our data centers across the world. This role provides a unique opportunity to work on projects that will help support the scale of Azure Storage to the next level. If you like the challenges of 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 a position for you! You will have an opportunity to make high impact changes on a daily basis as you build a hyperscale storage system that may indirectly or directly be used daily by your friends and family.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage who is passionate about distributed storage, more specifically in the areas of Index management and/or Garbage Collection for distributed systems and want to work on a fast-paced team with talented engineers. The Azure Storage Index management engine runs on hundreds of thousands of servers, indexing data at exabyte scale while serving hundreds of millions of requests per seconds at low latency. The Azure Storage Garbage Collection defragments and reclaims unused data blocks within storage system at exabyte scale with very efficient resource consumption. Both of these areas are unique in that a single change can result in many millions of dollars of impact on top of delighting customers. Additionally, these areas present challenging technical problems in a space where innovation is always happening.

To be successful in these areas, you must thrive while solving challenges related to durability, availability and concurrency for a distributed system.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ year(s) experience in large scale distributed systems and concurrent programming.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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, JavaScript,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ year(s) experience in large scale distributed systems and concurrent programming.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 26, 2025.

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