Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Multiple Locations)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Multiple Locations

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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 role offers an opportunity to contribute to the future of cloud computing and work on technologies that impact millions of users worldwide. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Host Storage team, you will help deliver the storage virtualization platform that supports Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, and containers. You will work across the full storage stack on Azure hosts, including input/output (I/O) handling, data caching, Quality of Service (QoS), encryption, and offloading I/O processing into silicon. Our mission is to build next-generation storage solutions capable of scaling to millions of input/output operations per second (IOPS) per virtual machine at sub-millisecond latency. In this role, you will lead feature development, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to design systems that operate at massive scale. This position provides opportunities to work on cutting-edge infrastructure and advance your technical expertise in a fast-evolving cloud environment.

Job Responsibility:

Contribute to the next generation of Host Storage Control path to improve the availability and performance of Azure VMs as well as enable Baremetal offerings
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

Requirements:

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, C++, Rust or Python OR equivalent experience
2+ years of experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
2+ years of experience in software engineering with emphasis on system design, algorithmic development, and data structures
2+ years of experience in debugging, testing, and solving complex problems in distributed or infrastructure systems
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

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, C++, Rust or Python OR Python OR 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, C++, Rust or Python OR equivalent experience

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 11, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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