Software Engineer

Azure Storage is at the core of Azure, providing over 100 exabytes (100 million terabytes) of raw capacity distributed over 3000+ storage clusters in 200+ datacenters worldwide. Azure Storage provides the persistent storage layer in the cloud, powering millions of Azure virtual machines, holding centuries of video, billions of photos, and exabytes of data powering the latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The Software Engineer for Azure xDPU Storage Team - Hardware Enablement is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of Fungible DPU based Azure Storage devices as they integrate next-generation networking and compute offload hardware. This role focuses on safe bring-up, validation, and scaled production operation of DPU-enabled platforms, bridging hardware, firmware, and software reliability and maintenance.

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• Own end-to-end reliability for Azure Storage hardware running in on-prem lab environments.
• Partner with silicon, firmware, BIOS, networking, and OS teams to enable and validate DPU hardware for specific storage use cases.
• Define, measure, and improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for DPU-accelerated storage scenarios within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Lead live-site incident response and mitigation for hardware-, firmware-, or DPU-related issues, including deep root-cause analysis across hardware/software boundaries within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Build automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, canarying, rollback, patching, and recovery of DPU-enabled Azure Storage systems within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Develop reliability validation strategies, including stress, fault-injection, and chaos testing for DPU hardware enablement and management.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, diagnostics, telemetry, and health models specific to Fungible DPU platforms within our lab and pre-prod environments.
• Drive improvements in observability and alerting by extending Azure Monitor and internal systems with DPU- and hardware-level signals.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
  • OR equivalent experience
• Proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Javascript or Python

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
  
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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