Microsoft 365 (M365) provides the world’s leading modern workspace cloud services, empower communication, collaboration, productivity, and is entrusted by hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

M365 core is at the center of the whole product family. We are building foundational intelligent productivity services for consumer and enterprises email, documents, and messaging. Building and running services for all M365 is both challenging and rewarding. The experiences built on top of our platform positively impact the lives of millions of people around the world, empowering them to do more and achieve more.

Store team is responsible for an efficient and robust database service for Substrate where Exchange is built on. It’s the core service sitting just above the physical DB layer and providing the logical data model to all other Substrate services, hosting exabytes of data, trillions of items with 4.5 9’s availability. Store team provides rich set of features like quarantine, throttling, MCDB cache, full text index above the core database service. We're looking for excellent software engineer who is enthusiasm at building large scale, high performance, highly available and secure services. As a team member of the M365 Store team, you will be responsible of developing new features, improving performance, and driving down costs of goods shipped (COGS) for the service.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software components, services, systems, and features in large scale, distributed cloud environment.

• Work with peer engineers, partner teams and program managers across regions to deliver cutting edge database service.

• Resolve problems of any scope and aid other team members on a consistent basis.

• Led the way with impactful feedback to peers during code reviews and improvements to the code review process.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, or a related engineering field.

• 6+ years relevant work experiences in one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., C#, Java, C/C++, Python etc.)

• Prefer to have expertise in large scale high-concurrency cloud systems, hands-on in system optimization and mainstream database kernels

• Prefer to have search related background, with architectural capabilities to drive evolution for vNext

• Ability to work independently, work smart, manage multiple priorities and deliverables concurrently in a fast-paced environment, and deliver all this at high quality.

• Good communication skills and English skills, including ability to write concise and accurate technical documentation, communicate technical ideas to non-technical audiences both in Chinese and English.

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