We (Azure Core - Host Storage team) are responsible for delivering the Storage Virtualization platform to Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Our stack handles trillions of Input/Output (IOs) operations every day from Azure VMs and runs in 100s of datacenters and 1000+ Clusters. We own the whole software stack on Azure Host responsible for handling VM IOs, various caches, Throttles, Quality Of Services (QoS) for Azure VMs, various transports layers, encryption of data in transit and at rest. This area involves tough challenges and provides tremendous upside opportunities to leverage full scale of azure.

As our Storage solutions are getting larger in capacity, faster in performance and intelligence at an astounding rate, our customers are expecting seamless experiences across azure. Come and join the team that builds the platform and end user experiences for storage across Azure.

In our team, you will design and implement software components to enable and optimize the storage solutions in Azure fleet. You help enable specialized acceleration device hardware, and customized offloading hardware in our servers. The software components you deliver include device drivers and system software, installation and diagnostic tools, libraries, telemetry services and comprehensive testing. You will get a chance to collaborate with developers across Microsoft, and Software & hardware partners to deliver innovative technology. In this role, you will have opportunities to solve challenging problems and exercise your soft skills to impact the billions of users in the azure ecosystem.

We've created a collaborative and inclusive culture where new ideas are embraced and encouraged. Our goal is to create an engaging environment where you can do your best work. We are looking for a passionate, innovative, and versatile Senior Software Engineer who can learn quickly, have a passion for writing high quality software, and enjoy working within a dynamic team to develop Microsoft's performance critical, and secure Storage platform.

As a Senior Software Engineer in this team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both business and technology level. You will be part of a diverse, fast growing and agile team working with a motivated team of engineers and product managers. You will lead the technical direction and vision for the architecture, design, and the implementation of Azure Storage features.

If you’re interested in attacking hard technical problems and driving innovation in an area that has huge potential for impact on the company’s future, then this is THE position for you.

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.

Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop system software that manages storage services in Azure.

• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.

• Ensure that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable. Test, debug and improve existing storage features.

• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.

• Collaborate

• with a dynamic team of engineers, including mentoring more engineers in the workgroup,

• AND across team boundaries to define and drive team charter and vision.

• Drive for quality in everything you do and continuously improve the quality of the systems on which you work. Learn and share ideas continuously.

• Rapidly deploy cloud scale solutions and monitor health through telemetry.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience in software development design & development, debugging, testing and problem-solving skills

• 4+ years of experience in debugging and testing of operating system drivers (kernel mode and user mode)

• 4+ years of experience in handling periodic live service On-Call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode

Other Qualifications:

• 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: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Understanding of system software, Storage protocols, operating system internals e.g., memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading etc.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 9, 2024.

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