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 you 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 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 IOPS per Virtual Machines (VMs) 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 VM, hardware innovations to offload Host processing

• Help build the next Gen AI for Monitoring and auto-diagnostics of distributed IO subsystem that handle Billions of IOPS and be the core of the intelligent cloud.

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.

• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.

• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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++ or Rust

• OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience developing production software​.

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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or Rust

• OR Master'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++ or Rust

• OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience

• designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems;

• AND working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage solutions.

• Experience with Rust.

• Ability to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 March 5, 2025.

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