Microsoft Senior Software Engineer – Azure Files Linux 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

24792484

Azure Files is the foundational file system and file sharing service built in Azure Storage, supporting industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Network File System (NFS) and Representational State Transfer (REST) protocols, that is fully compatible with on-premises file servers, both Windows and Linux-based, can scale up to exabytes of storage, and provide world-class reliability, performance, and security. For more details on Azure Files see

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Files Storage Linux team, you will contribute to the open-source kernel mode SMB/CIFS and NFS clients in Linux, build new and enhance existing features, including changes to significantly increase scalability, performance, reliability and diagnosability of the end-to-end solution. You will also have the opportunity to explore distributed system design on the Azure Files service side and help solve the performance and scale requirements of the most demanding Linux based workloads, used by many large-scale organizations and services. You will have the opportunity to make high-impact changes daily as you help build a hyper-scale file storage system that powers the world.

Required Qualifications:

• 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++.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Linux operating system knowledge with development, debugging, monitoring, and troubleshooting skills on Linux.
• Experience with native code (C, C++) development utilizing concepts of multi-threading, asynchronous patterns, locks to synchronize access to state preferred.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++,
  • OR Master'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++,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in development of Linux kernel or system level modules/utilities, and prior open-source contributions is a strong plus.
• Storage and file systems experience, network file sharing protocols like SMB/CIFS and/or NFS is a plus.

• 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.
• Collaborates with a diverse group of engineers, across all levels, through sharing and learning.