Are you looking for that dream opportunity to get a firsthand experience of managing and growing an exabyte scale, critical tier-0 platform service for Azure? Would building some of the highest scale data paths and data stores in the cloud that manages backup data of some of the largest enterprises in the world put you on steroids?

The Azure Backup team has you covered. With a rapidly growing volume of more than an exabyte of data, join us at the cusp of building a truly general data protection platform which will serve as the foundation to help protect any workload (VMs, Containers, SQL, OSS Databases, File Server, Blobs etc.) running on any cloud (private, hosted, Azure, etc.) and hypervisor (Hyper-V, VMware). We are building a highly scalable multitenant layered architecture solution, consisting of loosely coupled micro services and a generalized data store.

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Responsibilities

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.

• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).

• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

• OR equivalent experience.

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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, with a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms.

• A hands-on, technical leader with 10+ years of experience with designing, developing and testing software systems or services.

• Proven track record of driving design of code that spans the work of several engineers.

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