Senior Software Engineer

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Azure is the growth engine for Microsoft for the next 5–10+ years and is the backbone of Microsoft’s Cloud First, Intelligent Cloud vision. The Azure Core team is at the heart of this momentum, building and managing the foundational platform that powers compute, storage, and networking services. We’re excited to offer you the opportunity to help shape the future of cloud computing—come join us and learn more!

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Host Storage team, you will be part of a team responsible for delivering the Storage Virtualization platform that powers Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Containers. You will work on the full storage stack on Azure Host, including input/output (IO) handling, data caching, Quality of Service, encryption, and offloading IO processing into silicon. Our mission is to build the next-generation storage solution capable of scaling to millions of IOPS per virtual machine at sub-millisecond latency.

You will operate independently, leading focused feature crews and mentoring engineers, demonstrating leadership and technical depth. This is a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge systems at massive scale, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in cloud infrastructure.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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.

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++, Rust or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience in software engineering with emphasis on system design, algorithmic development, and data structures.
• 2+ years of experience in debugging, testing, and solving complex problems in distributed or infrastructure 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++, Rust 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++, Rust OR Python OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 July 23, 2025.

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• Collaborate with various stakeholders to enable various end-user scenarios
• Improve the control path architecture to enhance platform reliability, performance while reducing the Azure Host resource usage
• 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 Machine (VM), hardware innovations to offload Host processing
• 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.