Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Managed Disk team, which builds highly scalable and distributed cloud storage systems supporting Azure Virtual Machines. The role focuses on analyzing and resolving complex distributed-system issues, improving availability and performance, developing scalable solutions, and collaborating across teams to support hyperscale storage operations.

Responsibilities

• Leads investigation and analysis of complex distributed systems, tracing causation of faults. Leads identification of bottlenecks or load concentration, acting independently to mitigate issues while also defining automated algorithms to distribute load more effectively
• Works across teams and organizations to establish algorithms and heuristics that are robust to degraded hardware or other recurring events
• Develops solutions for observed issues and bottlenecks that are reliable, scalable, efficient and diagnosable
• Implements new capabilities to the system in a way that can be incrementally and safely deployed
• 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

Skills

• 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#, or Java + OR equivalent 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:
• 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#, or Java + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Java + OR equivalent experience

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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