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Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end resolution of critical enterprise customer ICMs and high-severity reliability escalations across S2D, WSFC, CSV, NTFS, and ReFS.
- Investigate and remediate security vulnerabilities in the Windows storage stack, including privilege escalation, information disclosure, and denial-of-service issues.
- Design and implement reliability and correctness fixes in StorPort, NVMe, iSCSI, SMB Direct/RDMA, and file-system filter drivers.
- Diagnose and fix Storage Spaces Direct rebuild, rebalance, cache-tier, fragmentation, fault-domain, and Storage Bus Layer issues.
- Maintain Windows Server Failover Clustering and Cluster Shared Volumes, including quorum, ownership, validation, and arbitration issues.
- Fix Volume Shadow Copy Service and Windows Backup provider/requester, timeout, and metadata-consistency issues.
- Develop diagnostic tooling and automated regression suites using kernel debugger extensions, ETW instrumentation, and Storage Spaces health-model validation.
- Collaborate with MSRC on coordinated disclosure and patch delivery for storage-related CVEs, and participate in threat modeling and security reviews.
- Provide expert guidance to enterprise customers and Partner Technical Advisors during active outages.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to code reviews, design reviews, and WSD hiring loops.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Deep expertise in C and C++ for Windows kernel-mode development.
- Hands-on experience with StorPort miniport drivers, storage filter drivers, or file-system minifilter drivers, including IRP flow, completion routines, and cancel-safe queue management.
- Strong Windows kernel fundamentals and experience with crash-dump analysis and live kernel debugging using WinDbg.
- Knowledge of NTFS on-disk structures, including MFT records, attributes, the USN journal, and the NTFS log file.
- Familiarity with ReFS metadata, integrity streams, block cloning, and crash-recovery differences from NTFS.
- Experience debugging file-system corruption, minifilter architecture, WSFC, CSV, Storage Spaces Direct, and clustered storage connectivity.
- Understanding of SMB Direct/RDMA, iSCSI multipath, NVMe-oF, Fibre Channel HBA integration, and StorPort.
- Experience handling high-urgency customer escalations and interpreting Storage Spaces diagnostics, cluster logs, and ETW traces.
- Familiarity with ProcMon, xperf, and WPA for storage and I/O diagnostics.
- Preferred: Azure Stack HCI, NVMe specification internals, SMBv3, Windows Data Deduplication, compression, BitLocker integration, and published storage-security work.
- Preferred: MS or BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
Benefits
- The position remains open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the application process.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.