Microsoft
As a Software Engineer in Azure Storage, you will be designing and implementing protocols and features for data durability, availability, scalability and performance of backend distributed block storage. This opporutnity will enable you to innovate with a fast paced highly talented team and have high impact on cloud storage industry.
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Responsibilities
Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group’s project plans, release plans, and work items
Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
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 and shares knowledge with other engineers
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Java OR equivalent experience
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms with strong testing, debugging, and analytical skills
Ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Experience in designing and building large scale distributed systems
Experience in cloud backend development and operations, including performance, reliability, resiliency, and scale-out
Experience with multi-threaded programming
Software Engineering IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 – $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 – $282,200 per year.
Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
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