Software Engineer II - Azure Host Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure is one of the fastest-growing businesses in Microsoft's history. The Azure Core team is at the heart of this growth, building and managing the foundational platform that powers compute, storage, and networking services. We're excited to offer you the opportunity to help shape the future of cloud computing-come join us and learn more! Our team, Azure Host Storage, is responsible for delivering the storage virtualization platform that supports Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, and containers. We own the entire storage stack on the Azure host, including input/output (IO) handling, data caching, throttling, quality of service, data encryption, and hardware offloading of IO processing. 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.
Responsibilities* Contribute to delivery of next gen Azure Boost SSDs for higher performance, availability and improved COGS* Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.* Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.* Creates and implements 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) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.* Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. | |