9 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements and execute project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Design and implement end-to-end scenarios, performance testing, profiling, and optimization strategies for storage systems.
- Develop benchmarking and automation tools to evaluate system performance, validate scenarios, and improve productivity.
- Analyze bottlenecks, latency, and resource utilization across compute, storage, and networking layers; perform root cause analysis and resolve complex issues.
- Define key performance metrics and provide data-driven recommendations for scaling and tuning.
- Drive cross-product project and release plans while collaborating with multiple groups.
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual, participate in on-call monitoring, alert stakeholders, and restore services during degradation or interruptions.
- Guide other engineers by developing and following operational playbooks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: Master’s degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience in performance and systems engineering, distributed systems, or large-scale cloud services.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Employment requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.