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Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage

Microsoft

$163,000 - $331,200
Oct 2, 2025
Remote, US
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Microsoft's Azure Storage team is building next-generation storage solutions to support new workloads like AI training and inferencing, aiming to improve security, reliability, performance, and efficiency at tremendous scale. They need to enhance their storage services to better support AI workloads for partners like OpenAI.

Requirements

  • 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C-Sharp, Java, or Python
  • 8+ years of systems experience in hands-on development of reliable and performant distributed systems.
  • Experiences with storage systems in the areas like availability, remote copy, high performance, durability schemes.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems.
  • 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C-Sharp, Java or Python
  • 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C-Sharp, Java or Python

Responsibilities

  • Lead identification of areas of innovation to excel at support of AI workloads for our leading customers.
  • Identify critical performance, efficiency, data availability and durability improvements necessary across the portfolio of storage offerings.
  • Determine necessary improvement plans and their priorities and document work needed, including any dependencies.
  • Hands-on leadership of the engineering work needed to drive performance and efficiency improvements and to drive innovative new features.
  • Develop or partner to drive innovation to enhance data durability, availability and failure tolerance across the storage fleet while minimizing impact on performance and cost.
  • Develop and document new ideas and prototype them in partnership with others as needed.
  • 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.

Other

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Individual Contributor
  • Full-Time
  • 0 days / week in-office - remote