Microsoft · 8 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
USA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations. As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will lead technical innovations in hyperscale cloud storage, focusing on enhancing performance and efficiency while supporting AI workloads.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Lead identification of areas of innovation to excel at support of AI workloads for our leading customers
Identify critical performance, efficiency, data availability and durability improvements necessary across the portfolio of storage offerings
Determine necessary improvement plans and their priorities and document work needed, including any dependencies
Hands-on leadership of the engineering work needed to drive performance and efficiency improvements and to drive innovative new features. Partner with the engineering teams responsible for the different offerings to ensure adoption and success
Develop or partner to drive innovation to enhance data durability, availability and failure tolerance across the storage fleet while minimizing impact on performance and cost
Develop and document new ideas and prototype them in partnership with others as needed. Work with appropriate stakeholders (Leadership Team, Product Management) to drive new ideas to success
Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt 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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor'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#, Java, or Python + OR equivalent experience
8+ years of systems experience in hands-on development of reliable and performant distributed systems
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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java or Python + OR Master'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#, Java or Python + OR equivalent experience
Experiences with storage systems in the areas like availability, remote copy, high performance, durability schemes
Knowledge of distributed systems
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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