Software Engineer Ii - Azure Storage Microsoft Azure Storage is a highly distributed, massively scalable, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage system designed to scale out and serve the entire world. Our Azure Storage team is building next generation enterprise storage solution with focus in performance, reliability, efficiency and security. We are looking for a Software Engineer II - Azure Storage who is interested in developing and deploying distributed storage. As a Software Engineer II, you will have a chance to work on design, implementation, and optimizations of highly performant and massively scalable enterprise storage solutions. You will be involved in all phases of the storage lifecycle, design, implementation, test, deployment, and support. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth and hone your technical skills. 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 You will be a part of a world class, collaborative team of engineers building software using agile methodologies and DevOps to run live site for the service. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Works in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth. 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java or Go OR equivalent experience. 2+ years of experience in developing scalable, multi-threaded infrastructure/backend software with C++. 2+ years of experience with planning, scheduling and delivery of quality software. 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: 4+ years of professional software development experience in block storage and file systems. 1+ year(s) of development of cloud services and distributed systems. 1+ year(s) of software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with proficient testing, debugging and analytical skills. 1+ year(s) experience with debugging tools like WinDBG, Wireshark etc.