Software Engineer

To delight customers in Cloud First world, Microsoft delivers highly available online services with cutting edge features and innovative functionality lighting up on a regular basis. Quality of service (QoS) is paramount as we continue to make a deep investment in Microsoft Azure and its expanding customer base who rely on our services to run their diverse businesses. Availability, reliability, and performance are all key differentiators that customers demand and expect in cloud services when choosing a provider.

As a Software Engineer on the Azure Storage team, you will work on varied tasks and projects. The primary focus for this role will be to implement and deliver high quality support services and automation for azure storages massive server fleet. We are looking for someone to drive automation, recognize patterns, and show initiative towards improvements. This position will put you on a team that has a critical impact on how Microsoft's storage fleet evolves. This opportunity will allow you to work with smart people who care deeply about creating a fun and supportive workplace, and you will have an incredible opportunity to learn and grow. Azure storage is a fast-paced team that just likes to get stuff done.

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 with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering.
  
• Basic understanding of storage hardware, networking and system administration.

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 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript OR Python.
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in
  
  • coding PowerShell,
    
  • AND querying tables in databases,
    
  • AND testing, troubleshooting and debugging,
    
  • AND working across disciplines, groups, and teams. 
    
• Hands on knowledge of server hardware and configuration inclusive of HDD, SSD, and advanced ASIC.
  
• Passion for driving, improving, and helping to implement security and business continuity solutions.

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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• Implement and deliver high-quality engineering support services and execute robust operational workflows in support of Azure Storage. 
• Collaborate within the Azure Storage organization to define extensible and sustainable service solutions that meet the needs of a diverse set of hardware qualifications. 
• Takes responsibility and ownership and completes assigned projects in a timely manner at the highest quality. Completes Hardware tests, validating performance, and identifying bugs.
• Applies, extrapolates, and identifies best practices and shares information with other engineers to reliably build improvements that are based on well-established methods. Demonstrates and maintains an up-to-date understanding of evolutions in hardware technology and the effects those changes have on capabilities.
• You will help implement high-performance solutions across teams while maintaining a quality checklist with help from other engineers. You will also monitor telemetry data and perform basic analyses under guidance to triangulate failures.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• 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.