Software Engineer – Azure Files Linux

team is looking for a talented and highly motivated Software Engineer with Linux expertise who can help us ensure that customers running Linux have a great experience when accessing Azure Files. 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 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 see

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

and contribute to the open-source ecosystem. For more details see:

As a Software Engineer in the Azure Files Storage Linux team, you will contribute to the open-source kernel mode SMB/CIFS and NFS clients in Linux, build new and enhance existing features, including changes to significantly increase scalability, performance, reliability and diagnosability of the end-to-end solution. You will also have the opportunity to explore distributed system design on the Azure Files service side and help solve the performance and scale requirements of the most demanding Linux based workloads, used by many large-scale organizations and services. You will have the opportunity to make high-impact changes daily as you help build a hyper-scale file storage system that powers the world.

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• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Supports identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight.
• With guidance, learns to create and implement code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable.
• Assists and learns about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.
• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.