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Drive innovation with the latest hardware and software technology for hyperscale cloud storage. Our Azure Storage team is building next generation storage solutions with 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 for Reliability and Durability - Azure Storage, you will have a technical leadership role. You will be involved in all phases of ensuring Azure Storage remains the most available and durable 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 can be leveraged in such systems, as well as building and supporting cloud services at scale.

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Responsibilities

• Lead identification of 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.

• Partner with the engineering teams responsible for the different offerings to drive the necessary engineering work needed for durability/availability improvement of specific offerings.

• Develop or partner to drive new 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. Work with appropriate stakeholders (Leadership Team, Product Management) to drive new ideas to success.

• 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.

• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt 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.

Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

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#, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of systems experience in developing reliable and performant distributed systems.

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 Science

• OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, 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#, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experiences with storage systems in the areas like availability, remote copy, high performance, durability schemes.

• Knowledge of distributed systems.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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