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Senior Software Engineer - High Availability in Substrate

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052


High Availability (HA) team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - High Availability in Substrate. This role is crucial as HA has been a cornerstone of the Substrate backend solution. We continue to explore opportunities for improving and optimizing service reliability. Our continuous strive to provide service to our customers goes beyond just optimizing the storage stack solution. We work relentlessly on reducing Microsoft capital and operational expenses, as we continue to explore more paths for optimization while maintaining reliable 4.5 9s availability. To achieve that HA has extended its charter beyond traditional database availability and redundancy solution - towards optimizing power efficiency, platform costs, networking costs. The latter will be the major focus of a talented engineer who decides to join our team.

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.

*Please note this role does not offer relocation.

Responsibilities

Own feature projects that directly impact behavior of High Availability component of Exchange Online (EXO) that reliably provides 4.5 9s of availability.

Write production, monitoring, and test code, create reports and conduct performance analysis of storage engine, database replication, networking layer.

Research underlying storage and networking layer, identifying opportunity for throughput optimization as well as for optimizing networking costs.

Engage with EXO, Azure, and MSR partners to identified joint projects that would optimize backend experience, improve service resilience, improve predictability and observability of M365 distributed storage and ultimately saving Microsoft’s networking costs.

Other

Embody ourCulture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

3+ years of software design and development experience with backend services.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with cloud and services, especially Azure cloud experience.

Experience writing services and micro-services on middle- or back-end tier.

Experience with networking layer optimization and tuning, deploying and maintaining large scale cluster products, defining and testing performance characteristics of backend solutions.

Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.

Commitment to building reliable and well-tested code.

Ability to communicate technical details clearly.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 7, 2024.

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