Microsoft Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage 

United States, California, Mountain View 

603891324

As a Principal Software Engineer in Azure Storage, you will drive and lead the design, implementation, and optimizations of highly performant and massively scale out storage on DPU hardware. You will be involved in all phases of the storage lifecycle, design, implementation, test, deployment and support. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your technical leadership skills, and develop deep business acumen.

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 storage data path development experience including but not limited to data compression and encryption, log structuring. data integrity, data management.
  
• 4+ years of experience in development of highly performant and massively scalable cloud services and distributed systems
  
• 6+ years of experience with technical problem solving and debugging skills.

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 ScienceOR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of Windows or Linux Operating System
  
• Experience with storage sub systems in Linux or Windows or any major OS and experience with storage protocols like iSCSI and NVMe
  
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills (to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels)

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Reviews work items to deepen knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders and executes project plans, release plans, and work items.
• 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. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Leads by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple group's 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.