The Azure Core team builds and manages the foundational platform that powers compute, storage, and networking services. The Azure Host Storage team is responsible for delivering the storage virtualization platform that supports Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and containers. This role offers the chance to work on large-scale distributed systems and cutting-edge storage technologies while collaborating with teams across Microsoft to deliver secure and reliable solutions for cloud workloads.
Requirements
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or Rust
- developing cloud scale production software.
- system design, algorithmic and problem-solving skills.
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or Rust
- designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.
- working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage solutions
- handling periodic live service on-call responsibilities or similar and working in dev-ops mode.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the next generation of Host Storage Control path to improve the availability and performance of Azure VMs
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- Embody our culture and values
- Individual Contributor
- Full-Time
