Software Engineer II

Are you excited about the possibility of working on a high-performance team on the largest Object Storage service in the world? Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running Cloud Storage for Microsoft Azure Cloud. The team works on distributed systems, scaling to exabytes of storage in data centers around the world. Azure Storage provides the persistent storage layer in the cloud, powering millions of Azure virtual machines, holding millions of hours of video, billions of photos and petabytes of other data types.  Azure Storage is one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud and consists of the Storage Platform, which currently powers various different storage services, including  Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSql Key Value store), Queue Storage, File Storage (new SMB based File Storage), Disk Storage and Data Lake Store (HDFS compliant); all which support a variety of storage and analytic workloads. The service hosts data from some of the largest companies in the world, plus supports all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses, including Xbox, Skype and Bing, and has scaled to store exabytes of customer data, with the roadmap looking even better in terms of growth.  As part of this team, you will work on the biggest of the big data services in Microsoft, live in the services culture, and embrace and learn in a fast paced, live-site focused environment delivering customer value in everything we do. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product/service with little oversight Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience 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: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience Experience in designing and building large scale