Overview
USD 137,600.00 - 267,000.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Innovation
Cloud Storage
FOCUS
IT Management
Art
Systems Design
Computer Hardware
Data Processing
Storage
Microsoft Azure
Modeling
Purchasing
COGS
Performance Improvement
Collaboration
Partnership
Leadership
Accountability
Mentorship
Data Storage
Software Development
Screening
PASS
Cloud Computing
Computer Science
C
C++
C#
Java
Python
Software Engineering
Integrated Circuit
IC
Internal Communications
Legal
Recruiting
Microsoft
Job Details
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.
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.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br>
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 7, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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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.
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.
Responsibilities:
- Lead identification of a reas 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 m eeting their performance and capacity requirements, and minimizing Azure's cost.
- Work with the capacity organization and d rive capacity modeling work to allow better planning and purchasing of resources .
- Drive the engineering work needed to achieve cogs and performance improvement s . P artner with the Project Manager , the C apacity 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 M anagement) to drive new ideas to success.
- Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system s /product s /service s for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
Qualifications:
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br>
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 7, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
#Azurecorejobs
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