Software Engineer- II
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Do you want to work on the cutting edge of distributed systems, storage, networking & cluster technologies and be part of the infrastructure for private and hybrid cloud? Do you want to contribute to the critical solutions on which Enterprise Cloud Deployments depend, while being a part of a fast-paced and energetic team?
Some of the opportunities you will have by being part of our journey include:
- Making our software stack resilient to faults to meet service availability expectations, leverage new classes of hardware to drive up performance, instrument product code to gather data-driven insights to ensure we are continuing to delight our customers.
- You will be part of a team that is delivering solutions that allow hosting solution providers to handle the ever growing storage capacities and increased performance expectations while reducing their maintenance costs through improved diagnostics.
If you want to learn about storage, high availability, file management, file systems, caching, performance, multi-tiered storage hierarchies and of course OS internals-this is the place for you. Cloud Scale, Virtualization, elasticity, flexible provisioning, containers – building a platform for the next decade of cloud services is an exciting adventure that we would love for you to be a part of.
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.
Responsibilities
- In our team you will be exposed to cutting edge development from user-mode to kernel-mode in C/C++/C#.
- We pride ourselves in developing ingenious validation tools to deliver on reliability, stress, and fault-injection (to name a few) metrics and perform work load modelling and analysis.
- We invest heavily in telemetry, and you will be responsible for the entire data pipeline, from instrumenting our product code, to mining big data smartly.
- You will be responsible for defining the metrics and measures of product success.
- You will code and implement trouble shooters that ship in the box, deeply understand our platform, instrumenting them, and then ultimately deriving insights that in turn will directly help shape what gets built in iterative cycles.
- Your work will directly help gauge product quality in the brave new world of Windows as a service, validate and inform design choices, in understanding how our customers use and deploy our solutions and help shape our future product investments.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Solid Computer Science background in Operating Systems and Data Structures.
- Knowledge of Storage Technologies.
- Data Analytics, Big Data, and Telemetry towards providing deeper understanding of End to End Customer Experiences.
- Solid interpersonal skills with a solid desire to work in a collaborative environment on a fast paced team.
- Motivation, Passion and Drive to build high quality products that delight our customers.
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Other Requirements: 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.
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.