Senior Software Engineer

Azure is the one of the fastest-growing business in Microsoft's history, The Azure Core team builds and manages the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to innovate and shape the world's computer, and we encourage you to apply and learn more!

We (Azure Host Storage team) are responsible for delivering Storage Virtualization platform to Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Containers. We own the whole storage stack on Azure Host responsible for handling input/output (IOs), data caching, Throttles, Quality of Service, Encrypting data, Offloading IO processing into Silicon. We are building next gen storage solution to scale to millions of input/output per second (IOPS) per Virtual Machine (VM at sub-ms IO latency.

Our team offers flexible work opportunity and team members can work from home partially or fully.

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.

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#, Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experiences designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.

Other Requirements:

• 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#
  • 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.
• Experience with Rust.
• Experience with system design, algorithmic skills, knowledge of data structures.
• Experience with debugging, testing, and problem-solving.
• 4+ years of experiences working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage solutions is big plus.
• Ability to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 20, 2024

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services delivering consistent IO performance
• Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions
• Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis
• Help evolve our storage stack to reduce IO latencies to microsecond range at 99.999 percentile, update complete IO stack with zero impact to the Virtual Machiine (VM), hardware innovations to offload Host processing
• Help build the next Gen Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Monitoring and auto-diagnostics of distributed IO subsystem that handle Billions of IOPS and be the core of the intelligent cloud.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Embody our Culture and Values .