Microsoft
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Senior Software Engineer

Pay
$119,800 – $234,700 per year
Location
United States · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
4+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Microsoft cloud background check
  • C
  • C++
  • storage datapath performance
  • memory management
  • device virtualization

Also useful

  • hardware offloads
  • virtualization
  • root cause analysis
  • performance tuning

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health

Overview

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 innovative teams across devices, filesystems, hardware offloads, and operations.

As a Software Engineer 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 performance in transactions rates, throughput, and scale. You will collaborate with organizations across Research, Storage, Compute, and more to power the future of Compute and AI workloads. Your work will encompass the entire software development lifecycle, including operations, scaling, training, and support.

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

  • Collaborates with stakeholders to derive scenarios and user requirements
  • 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

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C and C++
  • 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

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C and C++
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C and C++
  • OR equivalent experience
  • 6+ years experience with kernel development, embedded systems, hardware offloads, or virtualization
  • 6+ years experience with storage datapath performance, memory management, or device virtualization
  • 4+ years experience with Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), or measurement and validation
  • 2+ years experience with performance tuning, measurement, and data analysis

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Pay and benefits

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Read the original posting

From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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