Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
United States · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years required; equivalent experience accepted. Preferred experience includes 6+ years in specified areas, 4+ years with CSP, RCA, or measurement and validation, and 2+ years in performance tuning, measurement, and data analysis. Preferred degree-and-experience alternatives: Master's plus 6+ years, or Bachelor's plus 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs and develops Azure Storage infrastructure software to onboard hardware accelerators and improve performance, scale, reliability, and operations for cloud storage and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Derive requirements with stakeholders and create design documents for products, services, or platforms.
- Implement, optimize, debug, and maintain code to improve performance and maintainability.
- Serve as a designated responsible individual, monitor services, respond to incidents, and guide engineering work.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C and C++, or equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- 6+ years of experience with kernel development, embedded systems, hardware offloads, or virtualization; and/or storage datapath performance, memory management, or device virtualization.
- Experience with CSP, RCA, measurement and validation, or performance tuning, measurement, and data analysis.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++
AI focus
Enables storage performance and scale for AI workloads by onboarding hardware accelerators and developing infrastructure improvements.
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