Ever wonder what it would feel like to design and build on one of the largest distributed system ever envisioned?
Do you get all worked up when you think about harnessing the power and storage of 20,000, 30,000, or 100,000 machines, working on solving problems that directly affect Microsoft’s search, ads, and portal businesses?

If you answered ‘yes’ to two or more of these questions, then we have the ideal gig for you.

Azure Storage team in Microsoft is looking for talented, hard driving, software engineers to work on the ADLS cloud storage layer that powers both internal and open source computational engines. This job involves working on a massively parallel supercomputer comprised of tens of thousands of commodity PC’s, coordinating to provide vast reliable storage and stunning computation power. Every day, this system ingests hundreds of terabytes of data from Bing, AdCenter, MSN, Windows Live running thousands of computations that read and write petabytes of data. The underlying service needs to be unimaginably fast, and it needs to be rock-solid reliable.

Responsibilities

The role specifically involves building and managing the metadata layer to power one of the largest stores in Microsoft. Metadata layer is a super low latency highly scalable layer that delivers thousands of queries (both read and write) per second effortlessly day in and day out. This layer is also responsible for replication within datacenter and, geo-replicating across DC’s. If you are interested in such a low latency, high throughput yet strongly consistent metadata service… you are looking at the right place.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

*7+ years of experience in C++
*Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
*1+ years’ experience in distributed systems, including high-performance distributed storage and networking

Preferred Qualifications:

*Master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Mathematics or Physics or Engineering or Computer Engineering
*Experience in distributed systems and multi-threaded programming is strongly preferred.
*Not intimidated by debugging across a complex distributed system.
*Great design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale.
*Demonstrated experience shipping products - on time, no bugs.
*Strong written and verbal communication skills

Cloud Background check:

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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