To delight customers in a Cloud First world, Microsoft delivers highly available online services with cutting edge features and innovative functionality lighting up on a regular basis. Quality of service (QoS) is paramount as we continue to make deep investment in Microsoft Azure and its expanding customer base who rely on our services to run their diverse businesses. Availability, reliability, and performance are all key differentiators that customers demand and expect in cloud services when choosing a provider.

Azure has one of the largest storage services on the planet, holding Exabytes of data and files not just for our 3rd party customers, but also many of Microsoft’s own services from OneDrive through Xbox. Managing storage hardware lifecycle and service growth from ensuring scale units are built with ideal hardware in both performance and functionality.

As a developer on the Azure Storage team, you will work on varied tasks and projects - from working on the newest cloud hardware, development and implementation of testing scenarios, diagnostics, and implementation to accommodate our ever-changing platform and offerings.

We are looking for the developer or engineer that wants to grow and excel, those who seek out challenges and always willing to take on the next new project. This role is perfect for someone who loves to build code to stress hardware and find the corner cases where it fails. We focus on the infrastructure and hardware health of the entire fleet of Azure Storage, this role is a focus on the software engine utilized to validate all systems in the fleet.

Responsibilities
This role is perfect for someone who loves to build code to stress hardware and find the corner cases where it fails. We focus on the infrastructure and hardware health of the entire fleet of Azure Storage, this role is a focus on the software engine utilized to validate all systems in the fleet. Some of these responsibilities include:
Working with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
Contributing to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
Creating and implementing 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.
Acting 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.
Remaining 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:
4+ years C++ dev experience building scalable system software and/or Services.
Strong distributed systems knowledge
End to End system component integration knowledge and experience
Hands on development experience for large scale systems, designing and writing code.

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.
Additional Details:
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