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Principal Engineering - Azure Storage

United States, Multiple Locations 139900.00 - 304200.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 05, 2026
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Are you ready to shape the future of Artificial intelligence AI-scale storage solutions? Join the Azure Storage organization, where you will drive innovation and solve technical challenges at hyperscale. This team powers mission-critical storage systems—including both the core Storage platform and Azure Disks—ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. You’ll collaborate with brilliant minds to deliver next-generation systems that push the boundaries of what’s possible in distributed storage and cloud technologies. As a Principal Engineer in Azure Storage and Disks, you will lead a high-impact team driving enhancements across our storage control plane and disks platform, ensuring they can meet the demands of exponential AI-scale workloads. You will spearhead AI-driven innovations to help Azure Storage reach effectively infinite scale, tackling system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and enhancing resiliency. You will also work cross-organization to empower numerous Azure products, multiplying your impact radius and driving platform-wide improvements. This opportunity will allow you to grow your expertise in distributed systems, Azure Storage, and Disks, sharpen your technical and leadership skills, and contribute to cutting-edge solutions that power AI applications on a global scale.

Job Responsibility

  • Partner with stakeholders to determine requirements for scalable, reliable, and high-performance storage solutions
  • Lead the design and implementation of enhancements to optimize the storage and disk control plane for AI-scale workloads
  • Identify and address bottlenecks in system performance and scalability while driving improvements across the platform
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to ensure system availability, performance, and fault tolerance, including participation in on-call rotations
  • Leverage subject matter expertise in Azure Storage, Disk and distributed systems to influence technical decisions and product roadmaps

Requirements

  • 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# or Java, OR equivalent 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.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 12+ 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
  • 4+ years people management experience
  • 6+ years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on Cloud and large distributed systems architectures
  • 2+ years of experience being a technical lead
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