Sr. Software Engineering - Azure Storage
Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Redmond
Posted on: May 28, 2023
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Job Description:
Are you excited about the possibility of changing the world with
Big Data by working on the largest Object Storage service in the
world? Come join the Azure Storage team in building Azure Data Lake
Storage and revolutionize the way Cloud Storage supports Big
Data!The Azure Storage team is currently chartered with building,
managing, and running the Persistent Cloud Storage for Microsoft
Azure Cloud. Azure Storage consists of a Storage Platform which
currently powers five different storage services - Azure Data Lake
Storage, Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSql Key Value store), Queue
Storage, File Storage (SMB based File Storage) and Disk Storage. We
are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud. This
service hosts data from some of the largest companies in the world
plus supports all of Microsoft's largest online businesses
including Teams, Xbox, One Drive and Bing, and has scaled to store
exabytes of customer data with the roadmap looking even better in
terms of growth. We have built a new foundational Storage service
with ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) and one of the new areas of
investment and innovation in this space is to fundamentally change
how we serve these massive bandwidth workloads at huge scale with
low latency and at low cost. This position is for making major
enhancements to our core communication capabilities for the
critical data path between Storage and Compute/Analytics
engines.You can read more about the Azure Storage Service
architecture here: and about the current storage offerings here:
and watch an overview specifically about Azure Storage's
Hierarchical Namespace here: Building File System Semantics for an
Exabyte Scale Object Storage SystemThis position involves deep
technical work in the Storage backend as well as optimizing Storage
and its Compute communication path for Data Analytics workload. The
work for this position will cross many layers of the Azure Storage
system and Azure as a whole, presenting unique engineering
challenges for which we need top-notch talent. This work will be
leveraged by all Big Data and Analytics at Microsoft, which offers
a unique opportunity to have a huge impact on customers and the
world. It is an exciting time for the team as we are working on
expanding the range of supported scenarios for the service while
working on the next version architecture of the storage service to
support the next 100X growth.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.
Keywords: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond , Sr. Software Engineering - Azure Storage, IT / Software / Systems , Redmond, Washington
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