Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Storage

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including AI, Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.   

The Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellence (AMS COE) is hiring a Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Storage. 

We are looking for an experienced hands-on Software Engineer in SSD/HDD solutions for fleet health with a passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to architect and specify hardware storage solutions.  

AMS COE is part of the CHIE organization focusing on Memory and Storage devices going into the cloud hardware servers. AMS provides memory and storage solutions to Azure, drives memory and storage suppliers to deliver high quality products meeting our requirements. We are looking for engineers with a passion for customer-focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to architect and specify memory and storage hardware solutions that optimize for quality, reliability, cost, and performance.  

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• Design and build infrastructure for storage devices at scale 

• Investigate, triage and root cause SSD/HDD related failures in Azure solutions 

• Build automation for operations of storage devices 

• Collaborate with suppliers to design reliable, high performance and quality storage devices 

• Analyze data to identify, prototype, and drive the implementation of technical and process improvements to increase the predictability, agility, and quality of Azure systems 

• Actively support Azure service stakeholders
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