Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end qualification and production readiness validation for new Azure Storage hardware SKUs, platforms, SSDs, networking devices, and firmware releases
• Drive qualification strategy, test planning, execution, and sign-off recommendations for Azure Storage deployments
• Serve as a technical escalation point for qualification failures, performance regressions, and reliability issues
• Design and develop scalable automation frameworks to improve qualification coverage and engineering productivity
• Analyze large-scale telemetry, benchmark data, and fleet health signals to identify performance trends and optimization opportunities
• Perform root cause analysis for hardware, firmware, platform, and software issues discovered during qualification
• Partner with Storage, Compute, Networking, and vendor engineering teams to resolve critical reliability and performance issues

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 6+ years of technical experience in service engineering, performance engineering, or site reliability engineering
• 6+ years of technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems

About the Company

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Azure Storage is a massively scalable, highly distributed, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage platform, powering critical workloads for customers around the world.