Software Engineer II

The Azure Core Host Storage team is responsible for delivering the storage virtualization platform for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). This platform processes trillions of input/output operations daily across hundreds of datacenters and thousands of clusters. We manage the entire software stack on Azure hosts, including handling VM input/output operations, implementing caching, throttling, Quality of Service (QoS), transport layers, and encryption of data in transit and at rest.

As storage solutions grow in capacity, performance, and intelligence, customers expect seamless experiences across Azure. Our team builds the platform and user experiences that enable reliable and secure storage at cloud scale. This work involves designing and implementing software components that optimize storage solutions for the Azure fleet, including device drivers, system software, diagnostic tools, libraries, telemetry services, and comprehensive testing.

In this role, you will collaborate with developers across Microsoft and with hardware and software partners to deliver solutions that leverage specialized acceleration devices and customized offloading hardware. You will work on challenging technical problems and contribute to systems that impact billions of users in the Azure ecosystem.

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

• Design and develop system software that manages storage services in Azure.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions .
• Ensure that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable .
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered .
• Collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers, including mentoring more junior engineers in the workgroup.
• Drive for quality in everything you do and continuously improve the quality of the systems on which you work.
• Rapidly deploy cloud scale solutions and monitor health through telemetry.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 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

• 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
  

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