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Senior Cloud Hardware Storage Engineer

Microsoft

Location

Aliso Viejo, CA, Redmond, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/16/2026

Compensation

$119,800 - $261,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202696.0% approval-64% YoY
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Job description

The Senior Cloud Hardware Engineer will be part of the Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellence, focusing on scaling Azure's Fault Self-Healing and Failure Prediction systems. This role involves building the platform behind Azure's fault self-healing and failure-prediction system, ensuring high availability and reliability of cloud infrastructure. The team is dedicated to delivering high-quality memory and storage solutions while driving automation and efficiency. The engineer will work with AI agents to enhance the operational capabilities of Microsoft's cloud services.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production software, distributed services, data platforms, or large-scale automation.
  • Proficiency in Python and C# (or C++/Rust), plus experience with cloud-scale data pipelines at high volume.
  • Experience with AI/ML in production, including agent or model serving, evaluation, versioning and rollback, and drift and regression monitoring.
  • Familiarity with LLM application patterns, including agent/tool-calling and structured output.
  • A proven track record of automation that takes real actions on real infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build the platform behind Azure's fault self-healing and failure-prediction system with telemetry pipelines, prediction services, decision logic, and automated repair workflows.
  • Ship AI agents to production, including prompt and tool design, retrieval over diagnostics data, and evaluation harnesses.
  • Implement automated remediation with staged rollout, blast-radius limits, and verification.
  • Own the developer experience by creating SDKs, APIs, and dashboards for engineers to author and deploy new detection and repair logic.
  • Build and monitor measurements such as prediction precision/recall, false-repair rate, and action success rate.

Benefits

  • Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Microsoft Corporation

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

503

FY2026

Approval rate

96.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

3,062

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-64%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-83%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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