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Posted date: Oct 28, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office - remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Azure is a key growth engine for Microsoft and serves as the backbone of the company’s Cloud First, Intelligent Cloud vision. The Azure Core team builds and manages the foundational platform that powers compute, storage, and networking services. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to the future of cloud computing and work on technologies that impact millions of users worldwide.As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Host Storage team, you will help deliver the storage virtualization platform that supports Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, and containers. You will work across the full storage stack on Azure hosts, including input/output (I/O) handling, data caching, Quality of Service (QoS), encryption, and offloading I/O processing into silicon. Our mission is to build next-generation storage solutions capable of scaling to millions of input/output operations per second (IOPS) per virtual machine at sub-millisecond latency.
In this role, you will lead feature development, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to design systems that operate at massive scale. This position provides opportunities to work on cutting-edge infrastructure and advance your technical expertise in a fast-evolving cloud environment.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Contribute to the next generation of Host Storage Control path to improve the availability and performance of Azure VMs as well as enable Baremetal offeringsCollaborate with various stakeholders to enable various end-user scenariosImprove the control path architecture to enhance platform reliability, performance while reducing the Azure Host resource usageCreate 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.
Qualifications
Required QualificationsBachelor'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++, Rust or Python OR equivalent experience. 2+ years of experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.2+ years of experience in software engineering with emphasis on system design, algorithmic development, and data structures.2+ years of experience in debugging, testing, and solving complex problems in distributed or infrastructure systems.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 experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust or Python 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++, Rust or Python OR equivalent experience. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 10,2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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