Senior Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure (software engineering IC)

• Team focus: Azure Storage Infrastructure—devices, filesystems, hardware offloads, and operations

Description

You will design and develop solutions to onboard new hardware accelerators, processors, transports, and to deliver cluster-level performance improvements for Azure Storage. The work spans the full lifecycle, including operations, scaling, on-call monitoring, and support, with an emphasis on improving transaction rates, throughput, and scale. You will collaborate across Research, Storage, Compute, and other teams to enable future compute and AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to derive scenarios and user requirements

• Create and drive design documents and product/application/service/platform plans

• Develop, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability

• Partner with subject-matter experts and stakeholders to drive project and release plans

• Serve as a DRI, guiding engineers and participating in on-call to address degradations, downtime, and interruptions

• Seek new knowledge and adopt trends to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance at scale

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

• 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C and C++ (or equivalent experience)

• Ability to meet security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Benefits

• Eligible for benefits and other compensation (role-dependent)

• Competitive base pay range provided by location (U.S. and metro area ranges apply)