Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Apr 05, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Azure Storage Data Processing Unit (DPU) organization is looking for a talented and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our team. We are building the next generation of Microsoft's cloud storage solution - Microsoft Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world. Drive innovation with the latest hardware and software technology for hyperscale cloud storage. Our team is building next generation storage solutions using Fungible DPUs with focus on security, reliability, performance, and efficiency.As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Storage DPU Infrastructure team, you will help enable Azure's infrastructure to support, deploy, and integrate with DPU-based storage nodes. You will help drive integration efforts with existing and forward-looking datacenter control plane software. You will be involved in all phases of the software lifecycle: design, implementation, test, deployment, and support. This is a great opportunity to work on exciting new technology, grow your career, and sharpen your technical skills.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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates 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.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.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. | |