Principal Cloud Software Engineer - Storage

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, energetic engineers to help achieve that mission.  
  
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering measures of success for hardware design, qualification, fleet support, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.  

Azure Memory and Storage Center of Excellence (AMS CoE) is part of the SCHIE organization focusing on Memory and Storage devices going into the Cloud hardware servers. AMS provide memory and storage solutions to Azure, drive memory and storage suppliers to deliver high quality products, meeting our requirements.   

We are looking for an experienced hands-on Principal Software Engineer for SSD solutions(Solid-State Drive) in the AI and HPC(High-Performance Computing) fleet with a passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to develop hardware storage solutions that optimize for resiliency, reliability, cost and performance.

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.
• 6 years of software/firmware engineering development experience  
• Ability to analyze storage system solutions and drive towards recommendation based on data and objective reasoning  
• Ability to lead collaborative technical projects from conception to successful implementation  

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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8 years of experience with computer/server storage architecture and development of SSD based storage systems solutions  
• Experience with distributed/cloud computing technologies and services (Spark, Hadoop, Azure, AWS, Cosmos)   
• Experience with scripting and query languages such as Powershell, SQL and Kusto queries (Azure Data Explorer)  
• Demonstrable organizational, problem solving and prioritization skills   
• Experience with Visualization tools, such as Power BI   
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, resolve conflicts, prioritize multiple strategic and tactical options and drive issues to closure without compromising on quality 

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 November 7, 2025.

#SCHIE #HIFE

• Design and build best-in-class fleet resiliency systems for storage devices at scale  
• Develop scalable live monitoring capabilities, fault detection and repair solutions  
• Lead collaboration projects with hardware, firmware and software teams that fault reduction projects 
• Build automation to drive repair efficiency for storage operations in the production fleet 
• Collaborate with suppliers to design reliable, high performance and quality storage devices  
• Analyze data to identify, prototype, and drive the implementation of technical and process improvements to increase the predictability, agility, and quality of Azure systems  
• Actively support Azure service stakeholders  
• Embody our culture and values.