Software Engineer Ii--Azure Core Storage

Microsoft

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We (Azure Core Storage team) are responsible for delivering Storage Virtualization platform to Azure VMs. Our stack handles trillions of IOs every day from Azure VMs and runs in 100s of datacenters and 1000+ Clusters. We own the whole software stack on Azure Host responsible for handling VM IOs, various caches, Throttles, QoS for Azure VMs, various transports layers, encryption of data in transit and at rest.

This area involves tough challenges and provides tremendous upside opportunities to leverage full scale of azure.

As our Storage solutions are getting larger in capacity, faster in performance and intelligence at an astounding rate, our customers are expecting seamless experiences across azure. Come and join the team that builds the platform and end user experiences for storage across Azure.

In our team, you will design and implement software components to enable and optimize the storage solutions in Azure fleet. You help enable specialized acceleration device hardware, and customized offloading hardware in our servers. The software components you deliver include device drivers and system software, installation and diagnostic tools, libraries, telemetry services and comprehensive testing. You will get chance to collaborate with developers across Microsoft, and Software & hardware partners to deliver innovative technology. In this role, you will have opportunities to solve challenging problems and exercise your soft skills to impact the billions of users in the azure ecosystem.

We've created a collaborative and inclusive culture where new ideas are embraced and encouraged. Our goal is to create an engaging environment where you can do your best work.

We are looking for passionate, innovative, and versatile Software Engineers who can learn quickly, have a passion for writing high quality software, and enjoy working within a dynamic team to develop Microsoft's performance critical, and secure Storage platform.

If you’re interested in attacking hard technical problems and driving innovation in an area that has huge potential for impact on the company’s future, then this is THE position for you.   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.

• ✅ Stakeholder Engagement
  

  Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

• 🤖 Scripting and Automation
  

  Develop scripts and automated workflows to improve the efficiency and accuracy of repeated tasks

• 🛠 Test Engineering
  

  Create and implement code tests and software test automation

• 👥 Collaboration
  

  Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals

• 🧮 Numerical problem solving
  

  Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems

• 🔍 Attention to detail
  

  Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables