Senior Software Engineer - Hardware infra

Azure Storage is expanding its development team to focus on providing the world's most cost-effective cloud storage solutions. The team is specifically working on Azure Archive Storage service, which delivers secure, low-cost, and energy-efficient storage capable of preserving Exabytes of data for decades.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Hardware Infrastructure team, you'll be working on distributed systems, scalability, and durability challenges within Azure Storage. You'll be part of building Microsoft's cloud storage solution - a massively scalable, highly distributed storage system designed to serve the entire world.

Key responsibilities include:

• Influencing design and writing new code for cloud services
• Working with stakeholders to determine user requirements
• Supporting dependency identification and development of design documents
• Creating and implementing code for products, services, and features
• Breaking down work items and providing estimates
• Monitoring system health and resolving issues
• Driving improvements in availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance

The role requires strong experience in:

• 8+ years of technical engineering experience
• 4+ years in tooling and automation at scale
• 4+ years of object-oriented development
• 2+ years working on distributed systems
• Experience with languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• Knowledge of cloud services, datacenter hardware infrastructure

This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge storage solutions while being part of Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The role combines technical challenges with the chance to impact global-scale storage solutions.