Microsoft Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

541564675

at Exascale and rapidly advancing toward

at the forefront of this mission. We own the end-to-end storage stack that powers modern AI workloads—pushing for sub-millisecond latencies and massively higher Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) to meet the explosive demand of Large Language Model (LLM) inference and training.

As a Senior Software Engineer – Azure Storage, you will design and build high-performance, scalable systems that form the foundation of AI-first cloud workloads. You’ll work across the full stack—from low-latency data paths and distributed storage protocols to performance-tuned compute and metadata services. Your focus will be on unlocking new levels of throughput and efficiency to meet the demands of AI/ML training and inference at scale. This is a highly impactful role with broad visibility, requiring systems thinking, deep technical expertise, and a passion for innovation at the intersection of storage and AI.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Scienceor related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Python, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years of software development experience building scalable, distributed services with C++
• 3+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

Other Requirements:

• to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsarerequired for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position willbe requiredto 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, C++, C#, Java, Python or Rust
  • 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, C++, C#, Java, Python or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Proficent systems-level coding skills in C, C++ or Rust
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following domains:
  • High-performance distributed storage or databases
  • Hardware acceleration, SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data), and advanced instruction sets to optimize compute and I/O paths
  • Kernel-mode or user-mode networking stacks (Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Quick UDP (spell out....) Internet Connections (QUIC), RDMA)
  • Low-latency Input/Output (IO), lock-free or wait-free algorithms, fine-grained performance tuning
  • Proven ability to debug complex issues in production environments and drive them to resolution

• Architect and implement critical components of the Azure Storage stack (front-end, metadata, data path, caching, replication, durability, observability).
• Drive low-latency and high-throughput designs—profiling hot paths,eliminatingbottlenecks, andleveraginghardware offload (Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)/Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)/Smart Network Interface Cards (SmartNICs)) where it matters.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical deep dives with partner teams across Azure Compute, Networking, and AI infrastructure.
• Own services through their full lifecycle: design → development → testing → deployment → site reliability and live-site response.
• Mentor engineers, influence engineering best practices, and raise the technical bar for performance-critical cloud services.