Microsoft Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage Client Team 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

63544164

We (Azure Storage Client team) are responsible for delivering the Storage Virtualization platform to Azure VMs. Our stack handles trillions of IOs every day from Azure VMs and runs in 100s of data centers and 1000+ Clusters. The team is enabling storage offload using custom built hardware accelerators – utilizing the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) for transport and Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) as the VM’s storage interface.

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, C++ or RUST
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in storage or windows kernel drivers

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experiencewith coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or RUST
  • OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experiencewith coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or RUST
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) working knowledge of storage interfaces and protocols e.g. NVMe, SCSI,
• 1+ year(s) experience with Virtualization technologies.
• 1+ year(s) experience with kernel mode development and debugging (Windows or Linux drivers).
• 1+ year(s) experience in Azure equivalent cloud services - data explorer, portal, disks, storage & virtual machines Experience shipping & maintaining high reliability cloud storage services.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 3, 2025.

• Design and develop system software that manages storage services in Azure.
• Ensure that services and components are designed with appropriate telemetry and health signals to enable remote monitoring and debugging.
• Rapidly deploy cloud-scale solutions and monitor health through telemetry.
• Drive for quality in everything you do and continuously improve the quality of the systems you work on.
• 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.
• Embody our culture and values