Software Engineer II
Microsoft
Software Engineer II
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
Azure is a key growth engine for Microsoft and serves as the backbone of the company’s Cloud First, Intelligent Cloud vision. The Azure Core team builds and manages the foundational platform that powers compute, storage, and networking services. This is an opportunity to help shape the future of cloud computing and work on technologies that impact millions of users worldwide.
Our team, Azure Host Storage, is responsible for delivering the storage virtualization platform that supports Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and containers. We manage the entire storage stack on the Azure host, including input/output (I/O) handling, data caching, throttling, encryption, and offloading I/O processing into silicon to improve efficiency and performance.
This role offers the chance to work on large-scale distributed systems and cutting-edge storage technologies while collaborating with teams across Microsoft to deliver secure and reliable solutions for cloud workloads.
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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or Rust
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) of experience developing cloud scale production software.
- 1+ year(s) of experience 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.
- 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++ or Rust
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or Rust OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ years of experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.
- 1+ years of experience working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage solutions
- 1+ year(s) handling periodic live service on-call responsibilities or similar and working in dev-ops mode.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 November 12, 2025.
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Responsibilities
- Contribute to the next generation of Host Storage Control path to improve the availability and performance of Azure VMs
- Collaborate with various stakeholders to enable various end-user scenarios
- Improve the control path architecture to enhance platform reliability, performance while reducing the Azure Host resource usage
- Create and implement code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
- 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.