Microsoft Senior Software Engineer - Storage Performance 

United States, California, Mountain View 

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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer- Storage Performance who is passionate about optimizing distributed storage systems performance. As Senior Software Engineer- Storage Performance, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the performance of the Azure Storage stack. Your expertise and forward-thinking vision will drive the implementation of features aimed at reducing latency, increasing throughput, and enhancing scalability across all Azure Storage services that will use DPUs. With our service experiencing rapid growth, you will be presented with a multitude of challenges on a daily basis, providing ample opportunities for career advancement.

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.
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills.
  
• 2+ years of experience in Storage or File-Systems, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and Applications at scale.
  
• 2+ years of experience with profiling and performance analysis tools

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 8+ years 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 AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building tools and features that help monitor and debug storage performance
  
• Development experience in all phases of the product lifecycle
  
• Experience with storage protocols, kernel programming and/or embedded systems
  
• Collaboration skills, including experience working across organizational boundaries

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 21, 2024.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user 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.

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