Principal Software Engineer

Are you passionate about distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability? Are you interested in solving the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage? If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is the perfect fit for you. Azure Storage is a foundational service in the Azure Cloud which powers six key storage services: Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSQL Key-Value store), Queue Storage, Data Lake Storage, File Storage, and Disk Storage. These services host data from some of the largest companies in the world and support all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Office365, and Bing while scaling to store many exabytes of customer data. You can read more about the service architecture here and the current storage offerings here.

The Microsoft Azure Storage team is seeking a technically proficient Principal Software Engineer with solid design, coding, and testing skills, to develop strategy for and implement validation infrastructure services, and automate validation of Azure's massive, distributed storage system.

We value passion for scalable storage, distributed systems, and cloud services. The ideal candidate brings a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, along with strong debugging, testing, and analytical abilities.

We're also seeking someone who is customer-focused and excited to deliver high-quality, end-to-end experiences. This role offers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions daily on a hyperscale system that may be part of your friends’ and family’s everyday lives.

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.

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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience.  
• 1+ year(s) experience in testing systems at a large scale with various testing techniques including unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, fault injection, performance testing, scale testing, and long-haul testing.

Other Qualifications: 

• 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: 

• Bachelor'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++, 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. 
• 1+ year(s) of QA life cycle, methodologies, and best practices. Proven ability to plan, schedule, and deliver quality software.
• 1+ year(s) proven experience mentoring, and developing engineers.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 23, 2025.

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• Play a crucial role in product quality by overseeing end-to-end scenario validation integration work performed by team members.
• Design, develop, and operate scalable, low latency and high throughput cloud services and frameworks to stress storage backend.
• Streamline release qualification process and lead efforts to fully automate the release pipeline with a relentless focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD).
• Take an active role and partner with peer teams and external partners to ensure new storage features meet target availability, security, and reliability goals, with an emphasis on quality upstream.
• Drive quality initiatives to streamline release quality gates and release pipeline.
• Support, mentor, and help engineers grow to build an inclusive team environment where everyone can deliver their best work.
• Support recruiting efforts to bring top talents to the team.
• Embody our culture and values.