Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage

The Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and operating the persistent cloud storage platform for Microsoft Azure. We are one of the foundational services in Azure and host data from some of the largest companies in the world, as well as Microsoft’s own major online businesses.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, who has strong technical expertise in low-level storage systems, datapath, and kernel-mode programming, and is passionate about building the next-generation storage platform to support new workloads like AI training and inference. If you love large-scale distributed systems and enjoy working on projects where you can define the scope, direction, and architecture of solutions that make a massive impact on Azure Storage, this could be the role for you! You will have the opportunity to make high-impact contributions every day as you build a hyperscale storage system.

You’ll be joining a talented, highly collaborative team responsible for engineering the lowest-level and most fundamental layers of Azure Storage. In this role, you will provide hands on technical leadership and help build the next generation of storage servers, ensuring high availability, durability, and cost efficiency, while resolving system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and improving resiliency. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge storage AI workloads for our largest AI customers, and about how new hardware innovations like DPUs (Data Processing Units) can be leveraged in such systems.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership in designing and building high-performance, hyperscale storage servers using the latest cutting-edge technologies
• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for supporting next-generation hardware and emerging AI workloads
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight
• Helps identify opportunities for improvements in efficiency, scale, performance, and resiliency
• Creates and implements code for storage services
• Remains current in their skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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 or C++
  • OR equivalent experience

Other Requirements:

• 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 Qualifications:

• 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 or C++
  • OR 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 or C++
  • OR equivalent experience
• Experience in building and operating storage services at scale
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging, and analytical skills
• 4+ years of experience in lower level storage or file-systems, datapath, kernel mode programming, distributed systems, and operating systems

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.