Storage System Technical Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: Storage System Technical Lead (end-to-end system technical leadership for Azure storage hardware)

• Focus: Next-generation Azure storage hardware platforms across development and validation lifecycle

Description

Provide end-to-end technical leadership for Azure storage platforms, translating approved requirements and architecture into an executable cross-functional technical strategy. Own system-level integration, design quality, technical readiness, and program-level technical decisions across hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing, and operations. Drive technical decisions and resolution of complex system issues to ensure high-quality, scalable storage infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional system execution for Azure storage platforms during hardware development and validation

• Drive program-level technical decisions balancing performance, capacity, reliability, availability, serviceability, security, power, cost, schedule, and risk

• Set the quality bar for system specifications, subsystem interfaces, design documentation, design reviews, validation strategy, test plans, and launch criteria; maintain requirements-to-evidence traceability

• Identify and evaluate integration gaps and new/differentiated technologies across subsystems and lifecycle phases; define dependencies, risks, mitigations, validation needs, and closure criteria

• Lead/sponsor system design reviews with engineering teams, component partners, and ODMs; confirm qualification, interoperability, and manufacturing test coverage

• Lead cross-functional resolution of complex issues across design, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, deployment, and fleet operation (root cause, corrective action, verified closure, fix propagation)

• Partner with Technical Program Manager and Product Owner to assess technical impact, milestone readiness, and communicate status, risks, decisions, and help-needed items

• Collaborate across architecture, silicon, electrical/mechanical/thermal/power, firmware, OS, validation, manufacturing, supply chain, datacenter engineering, operations, and suppliers/ODMs

Requirements

• Education/Experience: Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer/Mechanical Engineering (or related) with 7+ years technical engineering experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years, or equivalent experience

• Security: Ability to meet security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Benefits

• Eligible for benefits and additional compensation (role and location dependent)

• Base pay range (U.S.): USD $142,800–$274,800 per year; San Francisco Bay area and NYC metro: USD $188,000–$304,200 per year