Microsoft · 16 hours ago
Principal Engineer Manager - Azure Storage
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company seeking a Principal Engineer Manager in Azure Storage. This role involves leading a team to enhance storage solutions for AI-scale workloads, optimizing performance, and ensuring system reliability while collaborating across organizations to drive platform improvements.
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Responsibilities
Partner with stakeholders to determine requirements for scalable, reliable, and high-performance storage solutions
Lead the design and implementation of enhancements to optimize the storage and disk control plane for AI-scale workloads
Identify and address bottlenecks in system performance and scalability while driving improvements across the platform
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to ensure system availability, performance, and fault tolerance, including participation in on-call rotations
Leverage subject matter expertise in Azure Storage, Disk and distributed systems to influence technical decisions and product roadmaps
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C# or Java, OR equivalent experience
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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
4+ years people management experience
6+ years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on Cloud and large distributed systems architectures
2+ years of experience being a technical lead
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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