Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage

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Drive innovation with the latest hardware and software technology for hyperscale cloud storage. Our Azure Storage team is building next generation storage solutions with a focus on security, reliability, performance, and efficiency. This is a great opportunity to grow your career and sharpen your technical skills.

As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage you will have a technical leadership role. You will be involved in all phases of ensuring Azure Storage remains the most efficient and performant storage in the world. This opportunity will allow you to learn about state-of-the-art techniques for building one of the most scalable storage systems in the world, about distributed systems design at cloud scale, about how new hardware innovations like DPUs(Data Processing Unit) can be leveraged in such systems, as well as building and supporting cloud services at scale.

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of systems experience in hands-on software development of large scale reliable and performant distributed systems.
• 2+ years of distributed storage systems software development 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:

• 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, 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, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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• Lead identification of areas across Azure Storage to improve efficiency and cost of the overall storage fleet.
• Analyze entire Azure storage fleet to identify and mitigate performance issues while maintaining or improving overall cost.
• Look for opportunities to optimize placement of hot and cold data from different customers with different requirements, while meeting their performance and capacity requirements, and minimizing Azure’s cost.
• Work with the capacity organization and drive capacity modeling work to allow better planning and purchasing of resources.
• Drive the engineering work needed to achieve cogs and performance improvements. Partner with the Project Manager, the Capacity and the engineering organizations responsible for the different offerings to ensure adoption and success.
• Develop and document new ideas and prototype them in partnership with others as needed. Work with appropriate stakeholders (Leadership Team, Product Management) to drive new ideas to success.
• Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.