Principal Software Engineer, Azure Storage

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Software Engineer (Azure Storage)

Description

Lead the design and development of high-performance, hyperscale storage servers for Azure Storage. Provide hands-on technical leadership across low-level storage systems, datapath, and kernel-mode programming to support next-generation hardware and emerging AI workloads. Drive improvements in availability, durability, performance, cost efficiency, and resiliency while creating code and design documents.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership designing and building hyperscale storage servers using cutting-edge technologies

• Partner with stakeholders to define requirements for next-generation hardware and emerging AI workloads

• Identify dependencies and develop design documents with limited oversight

• Find opportunities to improve efficiency, scale, performance, and resiliency

• Create and implement code for storage services

• Stay current on developments that improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) AND 6+ years technical engineering experience coding in C and/or C++

• Equivalent experience accepted

• Security screening eligibility; pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

• 6+ years software engineering practices, coding, and strong foundation in data structures and algorithms with debugging and analytical skills

• 4+ years experience in lower-level storage or file-systems, datapath, kernel-mode programming, distributed systems, and operating systems

Benefits

• Eligible for benefits and other compensation (details provided by the employer’s pay/benefits information page)

• Base pay range in the U.S. listed as USD $142,800–$274,800 per year; ranges differ for specific metro areas