Principal Software Engineering Manager

Azure is the one of the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history, The Azure Core team builds and manages the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services. We have an exciting opportunity for you to innovate and shape the world’s computer, and we encourage you to apply and learn more!

We (Azure Host Storage team) are responsible for delivering Storage Virtualization platform to Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Containers. We own the whole storage stack on Azure Host responsible for handling IOs, data caching, Throttles, Quality of Service, Encrypting data, Offloading IO processing into Silicon. We are building next gen storage solution to scale to millions of IOPS per VM at sub-ms IO latency with Hardware Offloading using state of art FPGAs\ DPUs\etc. Our team offers flexible work opportunity and team members can work from home partially or fully.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience developing production software​.
• Experience with Rust.
• Good system design, algorithmic skills, good knowledge of data  structures​.
• Solid debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.

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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications: 

• 10+ years of experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.
• Experience working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage solutions is big plus.
• Experience working in DPUs and Hardware offload technologies.
• Ability to handle periodic live service on-call responsibilities and work in dev-ops mode.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

#Azurecorejobs

• You will design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services delivering consistent IO performance.
• You will develop high quality secure and compliant solutions.
• You will support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis.
• You will help evolve our storage stack to reduce IO latencies to microsecond range at 99.999 percentile, update complete IO stack with zero impact to the VM, hardware innovations to offload Host processing.
• You will help build the next Gen AI for Monitoring and auto-diagnostics of distributed IO subsystem that handle Billions of IOPS and be the core of the intelligent cloud.