Senior Software Engineer – Azure Storage Files

Azure Files team is looking for a talented and highly motivated Software Engineer to design and develop the next generation of the Azure file storage stack. We are building Microsoft’s cloud storage solution - Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world, see Azure Storage paper: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sosp-paper-windows-azure-storage-a-highly-available-cloud-storage-service-with-strong-consistency

Azure Files is the foundational file system and file sharing service built in Azure Storage, supporting industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Network File System (NFS) and Representational State Transfer (REST) protocols, that is fully compatible with on-premises file servers, both Windows and Linux-based, can scale up to exabytes of storage, and provide world-class reliability, performance, and security. For more details on Azure Files see: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/files and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction

We are looking for enthusiastic candidates looking to grow at a fast pace matching our service and team’s growth, have a passion for writing high quality software and enjoy collaborating with a dynamic team.

As a Software Engineer in the Azure Files Storage team, you will develop features at the core storage and the protocol layers of the service, including architectural changes to significantly increase scalability and performance of the file system, including adding Backup, Disaster Recovery and Tiering capabilities. You will have the opportunity to explore distributed system design, protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS, and REST, and help solve the performance and scale requirements of the most demanding workloads, used by many large-scale organizations and services. You will have the opportunity to make high-impact changes daily as you build a hyper-scale file storage system that powers the world.

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• 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.