Senior Software Engineer

Job description

Azure is one of the fastest-growing businesses in Microsoft's history.

The Azure Core team plays a central role in this growth by building and managing the foundational platform that powers compute, storage, and networking services.

This opportunity invites you to contribute to the future of cloud computing as part of a dynamic and innovative team.

The Azure Host Storage team is responsible for the Storage Virtualization platform that supports Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Containers.

This team manages the entire storage stack on the Azure Host, including input/output (I/O) handling, data caching, throttling, quality of service (QoS), data encryption, and hardware offloading of I/O processing.

The team has developed the interposer and storage virtualization for the next generation of ultra-fast, industry-leading local Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Solid-State Drives (SSDs) with Azure Boost, which delivers 36 gigabytes per second (GBps) throughput and 6.6 million Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS).

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Boost SSD team, you will lead the design and implementation of advanced engineering solutions aimed at improving storage performance, enhancing platform reliability, and optimizing cost efficiency at cloud scale.

You will work with cutting-edge Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) technologies, including PCIe Generation 5 (Gen5) and beyond, to architect and deliver next-generation Azure Boost SSD solutions tailored to the demands of large-scale workloads.

You will mentor a team of engineers, fostering technical excellence and encouraging innovation as you develop solutions that integrate NVMe SSD functionality into emerging silicon platforms.

Your contributions will help shape the future of Azure's storage infrastructure, delivering scalable, low-latency storage solutions with high IOPS per VM, while collaborating with hardware, firmware, and platform teams.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Employees are encouraged to adopt a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to achieve shared goals.

The company culture is built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive both professionally and personally.

**Responsibilities**

• Lead design and delivery of next gen Azure Boost SSDs for higher performance, availability, and improved COGS

• Mentor team to develop speeds and feeds into next gen PCIe and Silicon platform
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• 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.

**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, C, C++, or Rust
+ OR equivalent experience.
+ 4+ of experience developing cloud scale production software.
+ 4+ of experience with storage, NVMe, PCIe with system design, algorithmic and problem-solving skills.

**Other Requirements:**

+ 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.
+ 4+ years of experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.
+ 4+ years of experience working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage solutions with the ability to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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