Microsoft Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Files 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

657391378

As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Files, you will develop features at the core storage and the protocol layers of the service, including architectural changes to significantly increase scalability and performance of the file system. You will have the opportunity to explore distributed system design, file protocols (NFS, SMB) and help solve the performance and scale requirements of the most demanding workloads, used by the most impactful companies and services. You will have opportunity to make high-impact changes daily as you build a hyper-scale file storage system that powers the world.

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++ or C#
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in writing highly scalable and multi-threaded backend/infrastructure code in C++

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:

• 1+ years developing applications for Windows using the Win32 API
• 1+ years storage/file systems experience and knowledge

• Design, build, maintain and operate a file service with high resiliency, multi-protocol support and high scale - with millions of requests across multiple global regions.
• Implement the next generation of enhancements in the Core Azure File Storage service, including scale out of the namespace, disaster-recovery and auto-tiering.
• Explore and grow your skills with distributed system design, file protocols (NFS, SMB) network protocols and other exciting, career building, technologies.
• Collaborate with a diverse group of engineers, across all levels, through sharing and learning.
• 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.