Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage

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Are you passionate about building the secure, cloud storage platform that powers the world’s most advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems? Join Microsoft Azure Storage, where we are evolving and scaling a product that powers mission-critical workloads across AI, analytics, and enterprise data. Azure Storage is the foundational layer of Microsoft’s ecosystem — from Copilot, Azure OpenAI Service, and Microsoft AI to Azure Databricks, Teams, OneDrive, Xbox, and Bing — enabling exascale model training, real-time inference, and planet-scale data movement for object storage, block storage, and massive big data platforms.

As data, models, and compute continue to grow exponentially, the security, reliability, and performance of the storage front-end layer become more critical than ever. We are building a front-end security platform that protects and accelerates every Application Programming Interface (API) call across Azure Storage — from authentication and encryption to network isolation and access control — ensuring the trust and safety of data fueling the world’s most powerful AI workloads. The Azure Storage Front End Security Platform team builds the core security and data access layer for one of the largest cloud storage services on the planet. Our work cross-cuts every storage API — from object and blob storage to data lake, queues, and tables — and enforces the guarantees that make Azure trusted by the world’s largest enterprises and most advanced AI applications. We enable secure, low-latency access to exabytes of data that power Microsoft’s most critical services and customers. Whether it’s authenticating billions of daily requests, encrypting petabytes of data, or isolating storage account data in AI training pipelines inside zero-trust network perimeters.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage on the Azure Storage Front End Security Platform team, you’ll design and deliver the core services that make Azure Storage secure, performant, and AI-ready. You will build and ship mission-critical features in the authentication, authorization, encryption, and network security layers that protect data for some of the world’s most important workloads — from enterprise data lakes to generative AI pipelines. You will architect scalable, globally distributed systems that handle billions of secure API calls per day with microsecond-level latency and mission-critical reliability. You will collaborate with security, AI, and infrastructure teams across Microsoft to co-design the next generation of intelligent storage front ends — enabling capabilities like fine-grained access control, vector-aware policy enforcement, and hardware-accelerated encryption for AI data paths. You will push the boundaries of zero-trust cloud security by integrating cutting-edge technologies in identity federation, service-to-service trust, and role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC). You will design for 100× scale growth, with evolving patterns like real-time inference, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and distributed training — all built on a secure foundation. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure, solving problems at planetary scale and redefining what secure cloud storage means in the era of intelligent computing.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience with a passion for distributed systems and large-scale storage, experience with multi-threaded or parallel programming, and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API) knowledge, including understanding the difference between a POST and a PATCH and the reasons for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status codes 409 and 412.

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 8+ years 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 AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience with a passion for distributed systems and large-scale storage, experience with multi-threaded or parallel programming, and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API) knowledge, including understanding the difference between a POST and a PATCH and the reasons for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status codes 409 and 412.
• 1+ year(s) experience demonstrating excellence in software engineering practices, coding with a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, strong testing, debugging, and analytical skills, proven ability to plan, schedule, and deliver quality software, disciplined approach to reliability, performance, and architecture, personable and positive with high emotional intelligence, and driven to own cross-team initiatives and improvements to enhance Azure Storage.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 11, 2025.

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