Microsoft Principal Software Engineer – Azure Storage Files 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

943393933

As a Software Engineer in the Azure Files Storage team, you will develop features at the core storage and the protocol layers of the service, including architectural changes to significantly increase scalability and performance of the file system, including adding Backup, Disaster Recovery and Tiering capabilities. You will have the opportunity to explore distributed system design, protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS, and REST, and help solve the performance and scale requirements of the most demanding workloads, used by many large-scale organizations and services. You will have the opportunity to make high-impact changes daily as you build a hyper-scale file storage system that powers the world.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical disciplineAND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • ORequivalent 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 Scienceor related technical fieldAND 10+years technicalengineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • ORMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical fieldAND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) 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.
• Collaborates with a diverse group of engineers, across all levels, through sharing and learning.