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120K-261K Annually
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Hiring Remotely in United States
120K-261K Annually
Senior level
Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and optimize storage infrastructure performance. Collaborate across teams to drive design, implementation, performance tuning, monitoring, and operations across the full software lifecycle, including on-call incident response and scalability/observability improvements.
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Overview

From ExaBytes, to ZettaBytes, to YottaBytes and beyond, Azure Storage leads the industry in Advanced offloads and accelerations, powering high performance Cloud scale Storage and Networking. The Azure Storage Infrastructure team is hiring for agile and innovative teams across devices, filesystems, hardware offloads, and operations.

As a Software Engineer in the Storage Infrastructure team, you will design and develop solutions to onboard new hardware accelerators, processors, transports, and cluster level performance improvements to enable industry leading performance in transactions rates, throughput, and scale. You will collaborate with organizations across Research, Storage, Compute, and more to power the future of Compute and AI workloads. Your work will encompass the entire software development lifecycle, including operations, scaling, training, and support.

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.


Responsibilities
  • Collaborates with stakeholders to derive scenarios and user requirements
  • 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 and C++ 
    • OR equivalent experience

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:
  • 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 and C++ 
    • OR 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 and C++ 
    • OR equivalent experience
  • 6+ years experience with kernel development, embedded systems, hardware offloads, or virtualization
  • 6+ years experience with storage datapath performance, memory management, or device virtualization
  • 4+ years experience with Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), or measurement and validation
  • 2+ years experience with performance tuning, measurement, and data analysis

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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 $160,200 - $261,000 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


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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