M365 Big Data Optimization team is hiring a Software Engineer to work on big data efficiency improvements for M365 worldwide.

Hundreds of millions of global customers use M365 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 M365 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 M365 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 M365 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!

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.

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:

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