Senior Software Engineer - Nzalae/ Nzawa locations

Job summary

Azure is one of the fastest-growing businesses in Microsoft's history. The Azure Core team plays a central role in this growth by building and managing the foundational platform that powers compute, storage, and networking services.

This opportunity invites you to contribute to the future of cloud computing as part of a dynamic and innovative team.

The Azure Host Storage team is responsible for the Storage Virtualization platform that supports Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Containers.

This team manages the entire storage stack on the Azure Host, including input/output (I/O) handling, data caching, throttling, quality of service (QoS), data encryption, and hardware offloading of I/O processing.

The team has developed the interposer and storage virtualization for the next generation of ultra-fast, industry-leading local Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) Solid-State Drives (SSDs) with Azure Boost, which delivers 36 gigabytes per second (GBps) throughput and 6.6 million Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS).

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Boost SSD team, you will lead the design and implementation of advanced engineering solutions aimed at improving storage performance, enhancing platform reliability, and optimizing cost efficiency at cloud scale.

You will work with cutting-edge Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) technologies, including PCIe Generation 5 (Gen5) and beyond, to architect and deliver next-generation Azure Boost SSD solutions tailored to the demands of large-scale workloads.

You will mentor a team of engineers, fostering technical excellence and encouraging innovation as you develop solutions that integrate NVMe SSD functionality into emerging silicon platforms.

Your contributions will help shape the future of Azure's storage infrastructure, delivering scalable, low-latency storage solutions with high IOPS per VM, while collaborating with hardware, firmware, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of next gen Azure Boost SSDs for higher performance, availability, and improved COGS
• Mentor team to develop speeds and feeds into next gen PCIe and Silicon platform
• 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.
• 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.

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