Senior Software Engineer

Welcome to Microsoft Azure Storage - a super scalable, distributed, ubiquitously accessible cloud storage system. Designed to scale and serve the data storage needs of entire world. We've had a tremendous hockey-stick growth with many Exabytes of data stored. Come join us solve unique challenges needed to march to Zettabyte scale and beyond.

A distributed system this large requires a creative change management service that rolls out code and configuration to datacenters around the world. A service that understands customers demand for high availability and adjusts for speed and safety automatically. An intelligent system that manages millions of machine updates across the globe 24/7.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Deployment team, you’ll have the opportunity to make high impact changes on a daily basis. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your technical and cross-organizational collaboration skills as you work with various other teams across Azure Storage.

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 field 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.
    
• Problem solver and an excellent coder with a deep understanding of software design principles
  
• Verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner

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:

• Experiences developing large-scale, high availability services
• Experiences working on large-scale Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment systems 
• Experiences building with Microsoft Azure, AWS or any cloud provider

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Lead the design, analysis, development, deployment & operations efforts for multiple enterprise services
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for the services/platform.
• Be a champion of driving mature Software engineering standards and practices with the team/wider organization
• Mentor and guide other engineers on the team, acting as a technical leader
• 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.