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:

The Azure Core Storage team is responsible for delivering the storage virtualization platform for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). This platform processes trillions of input/output operations daily across hundreds of datacenters and thousands of clusters. We manage the entire software stack on Azure hosts, including handling VM input/output operations, implementing caching, throttling, Quality of Service (QoS), transport layers, and encryption of data in transit and at rest. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will design and implement software components that optimize storage solutions for the Azure fleet. Your work will include developing device drivers, system software, installation and diagnostic tools, libraries, telemetry services, and comprehensive testing. You will collaborate with developers across Microsoft and with hardware and software partners to deliver solutions that enhance reliability and performance at cloud scale. This role offers opportunities to solve complex technical challenges and contribute to systems that impact billions of users in the Azure ecosystem. You will work on highly scalable infrastructure and gain experience in building secure and efficient storage services for global workloads.

Job Responsibility:

Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
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

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++, C#, OR Rust or Python OR equivalent experience
2+ years engineering experience in design, development, debugging, testing, problem-solving, system software and storage protocols
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

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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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++, C#, Rust or Python OR equivalent experience
4+ years engineering experience in design, development, debugging, testing, problem-solving, system software and storage protocols

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 29, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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