Overview

The Azure Core Storage team delivers the Storage Virtualization platform for Azure Virtual Machines, handling trillions of input/output operations every day across hundreds of datacenters and thousands of clusters worldwide. We own the entire software stack on Azure hosts, which manages virtual machine input/output operations, caching, throttling, quality of service, transport layers, and encryption of data in transit and at rest.

As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will design and implement software components that enable and optimize storage solutions across the Azure fleet. These components include device drivers, system software, installation and diagnostic tools, libraries, telemetry services, and comprehensive testing. You will collaborate with developers across Microsoft and with software and hardware partners to deliver innovative technology. This role offers opportunities to solve challenging problems and apply both technical and interpersonal skills to impact billions of users in the Azure ecosystem.

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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.
Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered. Rapidly deploy cloud scale solutions and monitor health through telemetry.
Drive for quality in everything you do and continuously improve the quality of the systems on which you work.
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.
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
1+ years experience in design, development, debugging, testing and problem-solving.
1+ years experience to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities.

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 4+ 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 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
1+ years experience with system software, storage protocols, networking concepts and operating system internals e.g., memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading, etc.
1+ years experience with design, implementation, debugging and testing of operating system drivers (kernel mode and user mode). Windows Driver and Kernel component development.
1+ years experience with results across multiple ship cycles.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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