Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Azure Storage

Microsoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Azure Storage, you will be responsible for driving qualification strategy and performance validation for Azure Storage hardware and platform technologies. This role involves collaborating with engineering teams to ensure high standards for performance and reliability in cloud storage solutions.

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, reliability issues, and production-readiness concerns impacting Azure Storage deployments. Own complex investigations across software, hardware, firmware, and platform stacks to identify and resolve qualification blockers
• Design and develop scalable automation frameworks that improve qualification coverage, efficiency, quality, and engineering productivity. Analyze large-scale telemetry, benchmark data, and fleet health signals to identify performance trends, bottlenecks, risks, and optimization opportunities
• Monitor qualification pipelines and proactively identify risks impacting production onboarding, deployment schedules, and service readiness. Perform root cause analysis for hardware, firmware, platform, and software issues discovered during qualification and drive corrective actions to closure
• Validate SKU readiness against Azure Storage performance, reliability, scalability, and operational requirements
• Partner with Storage, Compute, Networking, Platform, and vendor engineering teams to resolve critical qualification, reliability, and performance issues. Influence qualification standards, test methodologies, performance thresholds, and operational best practices across Azure Storage NPI programs

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
• 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
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical experience in service engineering, performance engineering, or site reliability engineering
• 6+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems