Hundreds of millions of global customers use Office365 products every day. The engineering, telemetry and signals, datasets behind this are at world’s largest scale: 800+ PB storage and a million CPU cores. There are various kinds of data platforms and systems working with each other to deliver efficient services. We provide large scale and unified datasets, span our portfolio for Office365 world-class products and applications, collaborate with data scientists/product teams/sales/marketing teams to gain more product insights, maximize customer value, and reduce cost.  

Our team manages this huge and critical big data capacity and platform, we continuously optimize this giant storage & processing resources for Office365 worldwide. We have achieved 200 million dollars cost reduction in the past few years and have accumulated a wealth of technical experience in distributed storage and processing fields. By joining us, you will also become experts on big data efficiency, and share your best practices with thousands of Office365 engineers all over the world. There are lots of opportunities and challenges that you can show your passion and talents in big data, improve the efficiency and reliability of the systems, pursue engineering excellence, and make tremendous influence!

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities include:

* Design and build highly efficient, lower cost dataset for storage and pipeline for processing
* Research, analyze, and investigate optimization opportunities on Office365 Big Data platform
* Ensure Office365 capacity stay in allocated quota by optimization in both storage and processing
* Design tools, analyze and leverage data mining, generate BI reports to improve the efficiency of data capacity & resource management

Qualifications

The ideal candidate must have:

* BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related field
* Solid Computer Science fundamentals
* Strong coding skills (no language restrictions)
* Experience on design/development with C#/SQL Server/ASPX/JavaScript/Azure
* Quick learning and solid problem solving, design, coding, and debugging skills
* Communication in English: reading, writing, listening, and speaking
* Cross-team collaboration skills
* Accountable and proactive
* Data pipeline and optimization knowledge is a plus
* Experience with distributed system is a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.