Software Engineer

Imagine shaping the future of cloud storage at a scale few can fathom. Our team is building Microsoft Azure Storage, a globally distributed, massively scalable system designed to store and serve data for the entire world. You’ll be part of a group that powers exabyte-scale storage today and is engineering for zettabyte-scale tomorrow. We thrive on solving deep technical challenges in distributed systems, resource management, and performance optimization, ensuring customers can access their data seamlessly and without limits.

As a Software Engineer in the Azure Storage Limitless team, you will design and implement features that manage hundreds of thousands of servers and billions of accounts across geo-regions. You’ll work on distributed load balancing, virtualization, and control-plane innovations that enable hyperscale growth. This opportunity will allow you to:

• Accelerate your career growth by working on cutting-edge distributed systems at global scale.
• Develop deep technical expertise in resource management, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Drive innovation in hyperscale infrastructure that impacts millions of customers worldwide.

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. 

• Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Learns about and applies diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• With guidance from more experienced colleagues, identifies and escalates blockers or unknowns during the development process, and communicates how they will impact timelines.
• Contributes in partnership with appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) to understand customer/user requirements for a feature.
• Supports the identification of dependencies, and their incorporation into the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight.
• Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI) in monitoring a system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.
• 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. 

Required Qualifications

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.