Software Engineer

With continued growth in digital data and the desire to leverage data to address problems that touch all aspects of our lives, Azure Storage is growing to meet these challenges! The Azure Storage team is hiring experienced engineers to join agile and diverse engineering teams for deploying Data Processing Units (DPU) technology.

As a Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will help build performant scale out block storage on Data Processing Units (DPU) hardware. You will be involved in all phases of the storage lifecycle, design, implementation, test, deployment and support. This opportunity will allow you to learn about cloud computing as well as building and supporting cloud services at scale.

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

• Works with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project lead) to determine requirements for a set of features. Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others.
• Works in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge 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 discipline
• OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience coding in C and/or C++
• Professional and/or academic experience with storage and/or operating systems.
  

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 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C or C++
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C or C++
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) knowledge of Windows or Linux Operating System.
• 1+ year(s) knowledge of distributed systems and storage.
  

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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 September 23, 2025.

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