As a Senior Software Development Engineer working in Azure Storage team, your mission will be to ensure Azure platform is performing reliably, highly available, secure and delivering consistent IO performance, can scale on-demand, and engineered to withstand the unparalleled computing demand from the customer workloads. We are looking for strong engineers who can help us to continue to evolve our software stack and also help with our next set of challenges like innovations to reduce IO latencies to microsecond range at 99.999 percentile, innovative ways to update complete IO stack with zero impact to the VM, hardware innovations to offload Host processing, secure data by encrypting in transit and at rest, building the next Gen AI for Monitoring and auto-diagnostics of distributed IO subsystem that handle Billions of IOPS and be the core of the intelligent cloud.

As Enterprises are moving their line of business apps to Azure, IO path has become more critical than ever before. So, come work with us on big architectural changes that will be redefining the hardware and software in Cloud.

Some of the other core responsibilities include

• Collaborating across team boundaries to define and drive team charter and vision, mentoring junior engineers in the workgroup.
• Design and develop system software that manages storage services in Azure.
• Ensure that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• 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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering
• 3+ years of experience in Systems programming
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or degree

 Preferred Requirements:

• Experience working in Windows Kernel Mode Drivers is big plus
• Experience in C/C++
• Experience in Storage area is preferred but not required
• Ability to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode 
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.                                                                                                                                   

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

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.