Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
MicrosoftAbout the role
Drive innovation with the latest hardware and software technology for hyperscale cloud storage. Our Azure Storage team is building next generation storage solutions with a 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 - 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 idenfitiation of critical data availability and durability improvements necessary across the portfolio of storage offerings.
- Look for opportunities to build common software that can reduce vulnerabilities across the fleet and across the storage services. Determine necessary improvement plans and their priorities and document work needed, including any dependencies.
- Hands-on leadership of the engineering work needed to drive durability/availability improvements. Partner with the engineering teams responsible for the different offerings to ensure adoption and success.
- 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.
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