About the position
From ExaBytes, to ZettaBytes, to YottaBytes and beyond, Azure Storage leads the industry in Advanced offloads and accelerations, powering high performance Cloud scale Storage and Networking. The Azure Storage Infrastructure team is hiring for agile and diverse engineering teams in Block devices, filesystems, Hardware offloads, Transports performance, and systems integration. As a Software Engineer II - Azure Storage in the Storage Infrastructure team, you will design and develop solutions to onboard new hardware accelerators, processors, transports, and cluster level performance improvements to enable industry leading transactions rates and network throughput. You will collaborate with organizations across Research, Storage, Compute, and more. Your work will encompass the entire software development lifecycle, including operation, scaling, training, and support.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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 or C++ OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience with Storage or Networking development.
- 2+ years of experience with Server, Cloud, or Data Center environments.
- 1+ year(s) of Kernel development Storage and Networking experience or embedded operating systems.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Nice-to-haves
- Master'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 or C++ OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) experience with solid state drive (SSD) or hard disk drive (HDD) device management.
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year.
- Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
