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Microsoft · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage Client Team

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $275K/yr

6+ years exp

Microsoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their Azure Storage Client Team. The role involves designing, implementing, and deploying software to enable hardware-based storage offload technologies, ensuring high performance and scalability in cloud storage solutions.

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Responsibilities

Design and develop system software that manages storage services in Azure

Ensure that services and components are designed with appropriate telemetry and health signals to enable remote monitoring and debugging

Rapidly deploy cloud-scale solutions and monitor health through telemetry

Drive for quality in everything you do and continuously improve the quality of the systems you work on

Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate

Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Embody our culture and values

Qualification

CC++RUSTLinux kernel developmentNVMeSCSIVirtualization technologiesKernel mode developmentAzure services

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or RUST OR equivalent experience

1+ year(s) of working in or familiarity with Linux kernel and driver development

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

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or RUST OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or RUST OR equivalent experience

A working knowledge of storage interfaces and protocols e.g. NVMe, SCSI and Virtualization technologies

Experience with kernel mode development and debugging (Windows or Linux drivers)

Experience in Azure equivalent cloud services - data explorer, portal, disks, storage & virtual machines Experience shipping & maintaining high reliability cloud storage services