Software Engineering IC4

The 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 the largest companies in the world, plus all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses. The team is responsible for the meta-data data service, as well as storing the data across storage servers while ensuring high availability, reliability, durability, and cost efficiency.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is interested in building and optimizing a world class distributed file system. If you love large scale distributed systems, love to work on 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 position for you! The role brings exposure to cutting edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed system technologies, with broad opportunity to influence both the business and the industry.

You would be joining a talented, highly collaborative team responsible for engineering the lowest fundamental layers of the Azure storage service. You will be working on the next generation storage platform being built on storage servers with Data Processing Units (DPU). Here, you'll have an opportunity to make high impact changes on a daily basis as you build a hyperscale storage system.

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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 area 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