Job Description

Software Engineer II for Ultra Disk

Microsoft Azure Storage is a highly distributed, massively scalable, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage platform. Azure storage already runs at Exascale (storing Exabytes of data) and we will scale our designs over the next decade to support Zettascale (storing Zettabytes of data). Within Azure Storage, the Ultra Disk team (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-azure-ultra-disk-storage/) provides a next-generation block storage platform for the most demanding cloud storage workloads. If delivering the fastest block storage platform in the cloud using cutting edge technology sounds interesting, we may have the job for you!

We are looking for an experienced engineer who:

* Is a determined engineer, someone who is disciplined about performance and architecture and cares about high-scale systems.
* Personable and positive: we want people with a high emotional intelligence. You understand people aren't perfect-you have the patience to work through difficult issues with external and partner teams.
* Open minded: You are passionate and have an opinion, but aren't opinionated.
* Driven: Interested in owning cross team initiatives and improvements to improve Azure Storage.
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The responsibilities include:

* Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, reliability, scalability, latency, security, resiliency, and efficiency of a service.
* Contribute debugging, troubleshooting complete stack of a service and drive analysis of an outage; write software and build automation to resolve problems permanently.
* Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.
* Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems; assess design and code changes to drive improvements.
* Conduct periodic on call duties.
* Technical passion, terrific problem-solving skills, and the ability to work independently.

Basic Qualifications:

* 2+ years of professional software development experience
* 2+ years of experience with C/C++, C, Java or another similar object oriented programming language.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Strong experience with C/Java/C/C++ and systems programming.
* Demonstrated ability and passion for designing and building large scale distributed systems.
* Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
* The ability to multi-task while balancing short-term and long-term tasks is essential.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or 4 additional years of engineering experience

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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