Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Client

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • DevOps • $117,200 PA - $250,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on designing, implementing, and deploying software for Azure Storage's hardware-based storage offload technologies. The team utilizes FPGAs, RDMA, and NVMe to handle trillions of IOs daily. Responsibilities include designing systems software for Azure storage services, ensuring services have appropriate monitoring, deploying cloud-scale solutions, and driving quality improvements. The role also involves acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring system health, and proactively seeking new knowledge to enhance product performance and reliability. This position requires expertise in C, C++, or Rust, Linux, storage interfaces (e.g., NVMe, SCSI), and ideally, kernel-mode development and Azure cloud services.
Must have:
  • 4+ years experience
  • C, C++, or Rust
  • Linux experience
  • Storage interface experience (NVMe, SCSI)
  • System software design & development
  • Cloud-scale deployments
  • Azure cloud services knowledge
Good to have:
  • Kernel mode development
  • Master's degree in CS
  • Virtualization technologies
  • High reliability cloud storage service experience
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Product and service discounts
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

Overview

Microsoft Azure storage is a highly distributed, massively scalable, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage system designed to scale out and serve the entire world.


We (Azure Storage Client team) are responsible for delivering the Storage Virtualization platform to Azure VMs. Our stack handles trillions of IOs every day from Azure VMs and runs in 100s of data centers and 1000+ Clusters. The team is enabling storage offload using custom built hardware accelerators – utilizing the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) for transport and Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) as the VM’s storage interface.

As a Senior Software Engineer IC4 you are responsible for designing, implementing and deploying software to enable hardware-based storage offload technologies. If you have the interest and the passion to work on new hardware and software solutions to enable performance and scalability at the highest levels, then Azure may have a place for you.

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, CC, C++ or RUST
    • OR equivalent experience
  • 2+ years of exprience with Linux
  • 1+ years of storage interface experience e.g. NVMe, SCSI

Other Qualifications:

  • 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++ or RUST
    • 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++ or RUST OR equivalent experience.
    • Knowledge of Virtualization technologies.
    • Experience: with kernel mode development and debugging (Windows or Linux drivers);
      • AND in Azure equivalent cloud services - data explorer, portal, disks, storage & virtual machines;
      • AND shipping & maintaining high reliability cloud storage services.

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 January 31st, 2025

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Design and develop system software that manages storage services in Azure.
  • Ensure that services and components are designed with appropriate telemetry and health signals to enable remote monitoring and debugging.
  • 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 you work on.
  • 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.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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