Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage

Microsoft Azure Storage is a highly distributed, massively scalable, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage platform. To meet the ever-increasing demands of performance and capacity for existing and new Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads, the Azure storage team is building the storage stack that will run on the custom designed Data Processors.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple groups' project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++
• 6+ years of experience in designing and developing storage infrastructure.
• 6+ years of proficiency with storage data path and protocols.
• 6+ years of problem solving and debugging skills.

• Health insurance
• 401k matching
• Flight privileges
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

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