Job Senior Software Engineer, Canberra

Storage, the core of Microsoft's Azure Cloud, provides 10 exabytes of capacity across 50 regions, 100+ data centers, and over 1000 storage clusters. It powers millions of virtual machines, holds millions of hours of video, billions of photos, and vast amounts of analytics data.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will play a key role in defining the technical direction of the most complex pieces of Azure Storage, while delivering continued improvements as well as pathbreaking features at a high quality. In addition, you will work on the latest server technologies and highly distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency and debuggability.

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage to help us deliver highly scalable services and world-class product experiences. We value people who can bring a diverse perspective to our products and where a developer will not just write code but will have a real meaningful impact on the direction of the products and which features to build.

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.

**Responsibilities**

+ Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services.

+ Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions.

+ Support highly available services used by millions of users?on a daily basis.

+ Infuse Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) practices to drive productivity, operational excellence, observability, incident detection, accurate root-cause analysis, and mitigation.

+ Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge 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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 2+ years of experience developing production?software?.

+ 2+ years of design, algorithmic skills, and knowledge of data?structures proficiency.

+ 2+ years of debugging, testing , and problem-solving skills.

+ 2+ years of experience working cross teams and collaborating with partners.

**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, Mathematics, Engineering 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.

+ 2+ years proficiency designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.

+ 2+ years of experience with high-availability, automation, performance and building highly available distributed systems at scale?.

+ 2+ years of demonstrable troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers.

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