Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

Romania 

532535055

You can read more about the Azure Storage Service architecture
and about the current storage offerings
and watch an overview specifically about Azure Storage’s Hierarchical Namespace here: Building File System Semantics for an Exabyte Scale Object Storage System

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND Senior level technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java
• OR equivalent experience.
• Senior level professional software development experience building scalable, distributed services with C++ or C#.
  
• Mid to senior level experiences in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Mid to senior level experiences with multi-threaded/parallel programming.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical skills
  
• Proven ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software: A determined engineer, someone who is disciplined about reliability, performance and architecture
  
• Prior experience and/or subject matter expertise in Storage or File-Systems, service reliability, Networking, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and/or Applications at scale

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.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for a scenario. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
• 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.