Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 03, 2025 | |
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OverviewDrive innovation with the latest hardware and software technology for hyperscale cloud storage. Our Azure Storage team is building next generation storage solutions including for new workloads like AI training and inferencing. We constantly strive to improve security, reliability, performance, and efficiency at tremendous scale. We continually evaluate opportunities to add new features into our storage services to enhance our ability to support AI workloads which are informed by supporting partners such as OpenAI. This is a great opportunity to grow your career and sharpen your technical skills. As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will have a technical leadership role. You will be involved in all phases of ensuring Azure Storage remains the most innovative, 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 what it takes to support AI workloads for our largest AI customers, and about how new hardware innovations like DPUs can be leveraged in such systems. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLead identification of areas of innovation to excel at support of AI workloads for our leading customers. Identify critical performance, efficiency, 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. Hands-on leadership of the engineering work needed to drive performance and efficiency improvements and to drive innovative new features. Partner with the engineering teams responsible for the different offerings to ensure adoption and success. Develop or partner to drive 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. | |