Storage is experiencing incredible innovations right now. The innovations of storage technologies and cloud connected devices are having a profound effect on every area of Microsoft’s business. Storage devices are getting larger in capacity, faster in performance and intelligence at an astounding rate; our customers are expecting seamless experiences across devices and across local and cloud boundaries. Come and join the team that builds the platform and end user experiences for storage across Windows devices and the Cloud.

The Storage and File Systems team is part of the Azure Edge + Platform Core OS Base team. We deliver storage solution for Windows, Azure, IoT and new devices that Microsoft and our industry partners ship in the future. This area involves tough challenges and provides tremendous upside opportunities including leveraging the reduced size, portability and increased functionality of new storage devices, improved software platform infrastructure, emerging protocol standards, seamless integration of local and cloud storage and development of solutions to new content usage paradigms.

Responsibilities

The work involves building system software that manages storage devices on systems running Windows. It can range from advancing Windows API for storage; onboarding new storage standards and devices to the Windows ecosystem; creating innovative solutions to problems in Azure; develop new industry standards. You will design, code features, tests and validation tools and work closely with teams in Windows, Azure or our Silicon and OEM partners to deliver best in class reliability, performance and user experience for everything around storage.

In this role, you will have opportunities to solve challenging problems and exercise your soft skills to impact the billions of users in the Windows ecosystem.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing software in C/C++
• 8+ years of experience developing production quality, scalable kernel and/or device driver software

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or related fields
• 3+ years of experience developing Windows device driver
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
• Strong design skills and a working knowledge of systems programming
• Welcomes the opportunity to work on a broad variety of issues throughout the entire product.
• Strong communication and cross team collaboration skills

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.