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Azure is the one of the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history, The Azure Core team builds and manages the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services. We have an exciting opportunity for you to innovate and shape the world’s computer, and we encourage you to apply and learn more!

We (Azure Host Storage team) are responsible for delivering Storage Virtualization platform to Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Containers. We own the whole storage stack on Azure Host responsible for handling IOs, data caching, Throttles, Quality of Service, Encrypting data, Offloading IO processing into Silicon. We are building next gen storage solution to scale to millions of IOPS per VM at sub-ms IO latency.

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, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services delivering consistent IO performance.

• Help evolve our storage stack to reduce IO latencies to microsecond range at 99.999 percentile, update complete IO stack with zero impact to the VM, hardware innovations to offload Host processing.

• Help build the next Gen AI for Monitoring and auto-diagnostics of distributed IO subsystem that handle Billions of IOPS and be the core of the intelligent cloud.

• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Leads by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.

• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

• 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND Senior level technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Mid to Senior level experience in System design, debugging and testing distributed system

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND Senior level 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 AND Senior level technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Mid-level experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.

• Mid-level experience working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage.

• Ability to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode.

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

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