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With continued growth in digital data and the desire to leverage data to address problems that touch all aspects of our lives, Azure Storage is growing to meet these challenges! The Azure Storage team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Storage to join agile and diverse engineering teams for deploying Data Processing Unit (DPU) technology.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Storage, you will help build performant scale out block storage on DPU hardware. You will join a fast growing team with deep cloud and enterprise storage backgrounds. You will be involved in all phases of the storage lifecycle; design, implementation, test, deployment and support. This opportunity will allow you to learn about the latest DPU hardware, cloud computing as well as building and supporting cloud services at scale.

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Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

• 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.

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++ OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of professional software development experience building scalable, distributed services with C or C++.

• 4+ years of storage data path development experience including but not limited to block storage, file systems, caching, compression, snapshots, etc.

• 3+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

Other Qualifications:

• 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

• OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ 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++ OR equivalent experience.

• Passion for learning and coding Analytical and problem-solving.

• Experience or good knowledge of kernel space programming, block storage protocols, file systems, distributed systems, operating systems, etc.

• Experience with live site maintenance and/or customer escalations

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