Software Engineer II

Are you excited about the possibility of working on a high-performance team on the largest Object Storage service in the world? Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running Cloud Storage for Microsoft Azure Cloud. The team works on distributed systems, scaling to exabytes of storage in data centers around the world. Azure Storage provides the persistent storage layer in the cloud, powering millions of Azure virtual machines, holding millions of hours of video, billions of photos and petabytes of other data types.

Azure Storage is one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud and consists of the Storage Platform, which currently powers various different storage services, including Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSql Key Value store), Queue Storage, File Storage (new SMB based File Storage), Disk Storage and Data Lake Store (HDFS compliant); all which support a variety of storage and analytic workloads. The service hosts data from some of the largest companies in the world, plus supports all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses, including Xbox, Skype and Bing, and has scaled to store exabytes of customer data, with the roadmap looking even better in terms of growth. As part of this team, you will work on the biggest of the big data services in Microsoft, live in the services culture, and embrace and learn in a fast paced, live-site focused environment delivering customer value in everything we do.

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.

Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features

• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product/service with little oversight

• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable

• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation