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[Remote] Sr. Software Engineering

🌍 Remote Β· United States πŸ’Ό Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is a technology company whose Azure Storage team builds massively scalable, highly distributed cloud storage systems. The Senior Software Engineer will investigate complex distributed-system issues, improve availability and performance, develop monitoring and load-distribution solutions, collaborate across teams, support customers, and contribute to hyperscale managed-disk infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Leads investigation and analysis of complex distributed systems, tracing causation of faults
  • Leads identification of bottlenecks or load concentration, acting independently to mitigate issues while also defining automated algorithms to distribute load more effectively
  • Works across teams and organizations to establish algorithms and heuristics that are robust to degraded hardware or other recurring events
  • Determine and communicate patterns that represent areas for systemic improvement or provide efficient identification of known issues
  • Communicate with internal and external customers regarding opportunities to leverage Storage technologies in ways best suited to their needs
  • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
  • 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

Skills

  • 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
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Company Overview

  • Microsoft provides computer software, consumer electronics, cloud computing platforms, and digital enterprise systems. It was founded in 1975, and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.microsoft.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2855 in 2026, 9192 in 2025, 9343 in 2024, 7677 in 2023, 11403 in 2022, 7210 in 2021, 7852 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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