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Principal Software Engineer- Azure Storage

United States, Multiple Locations 139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 03, 2026
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Are you ready to shape the future of Artificial Intelligence AI-scale storage solutions? Join Azure Storage Organization, where you will drive innovation and solve technical challenges at massive scale. This team powers mission-critical storage systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for AI-driven 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 Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will drive enhancements for our storage control plane, ensuring it can meet the demands of exponential AI-scale workloads. You will tackle system bottlenecks, optimize performance, and enhance scalability, working closely with engineers, managers, and program managers to deliver innovative solutions. This opportunity will allow you to grow your expertise in distributed systems and Azure Storage, sharpen your technical skills, and contribute to cutting-edge solutions that power AI applications. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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 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 and distributed systems to influence technical decisions and product roadmaps

Requirements

  • 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# or Java OR equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Storage products and cloud-native architectures
  • 5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on large distributed systems
  • 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C# or Java 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# or Java OR equivalent experience

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