Software Engineering IC4

Software Engineering IC4 | Microsoft Careers Skip to main content Microsoft Careers Careers Careers Search Search jobs Sign in Single PositionView All JobsSoftware Engineering IC4United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple LocationsApply nowAdd to cartFind out how well you match with this jobUpload your resumeJob descriptionCompany and benefitsJob number200042414Date postedJul 08, 2026Work site0 days / week in-office – remoteTravelLess than 25%ProfessionSoftware EngineeringDisciplineSoftware EngineeringRole typeIndividual ContributorEmployment typeFull-TimeOverviewIf you're fascinated by distributed systems, scalability, and durability, and eager to tackle the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage, the Azure Storage team could be your ideal place. Our team develops Azure Storage, Microsoft's globally accessible, highly scalable solution that supports users everywhere.We're expanding our development team to deliver the most affordable cloud-based storage in the world. The Azure Archive Storage service offers secure, cost-effective, and energy-conscious storage capable of preserving exabytes of data for decades, optimizing the interplay between software and underlying storage hardware.We're seeking software engineers to help us achieve our vision of meeting growing global demand for cloud storage far into the future. If you have a passion for distributed storage and enjoy working on durability, availability, scalability, and concurrency at the application and systems layers, let's connect.As part of this role, you'll join an experienced engineering team to build and refine a cloud service with unique algorithmic and scalability challenges. You will work primarily at the service and application layers while partnering closely with hardware and firmware teams to ensure the system holistically accommodates hardware capabilities and constraints. You’ll make significant contributions towards enabling our next-generation archival storage platforms by translating hardware and firmware needs into scalable, reliable cloud service designs. Join us to help drive forward our hyperscale storage system, relied upon daily by millions worldwide.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.ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios, including close collaboration with hardware and firmware partners to align service behavior with platform capabilitiesLeads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents and feature implementation for Azure Archive Storage Service, focusing on application- and service-layer solutions that integrate with lower-level storage interfacesMentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across productsProvide insights which influence team direction and product designLeverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work itemsHolds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptionsProactively 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 and shares knowledge with other engineersQualificationsRequired Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in...