Principal Software Engineer

Have you ever imagined the world with an infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone? A place where everyone in the world can easily access their books/music/photos/video/any data from anywhere at any time via any means (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, PCs, smart devices, etc). Did you ever desire a universally accessible storage system to record all the knowledge known to mankind, to keep all the books/music/videos ever created, or to store all the data collected from all the scientists in the world for them to collaborate upon? Do you want to be part of a team that strives to bring these to reality? 

If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is what you are looking for. We are building Microsoft's cloud storage solution - Microsoft Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world. We continue to have tremendous hockey stick growth, with many Exabyte's of data stored, and are designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale to support demand growth for the coming years. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed storage, more specifically on building a common platform for the Control Plane in Azure Storage. We are looking for talented engineers that are comfortable working on a fast-paced and high impact team. The Azure Storage Control Plane team is a platform that will power Azure Storage services and provide resiliency and scalability to the services. Our mantra is to innovate, grow and learn. The Job provides you an opportunity to build the Control plane Platform that will power all of Azure Storage; solve challenges related to scale and reliability for a distributed system; opportunity to collaborate with cross functional teams to design storage solutions that meet performance, availability and durability; work in a world class engineering team with a senior team of engineers, architects, and leadership; a set of peers and mentors that will help you grow your career on the fast track; to be part of a dynamic community - that will enable you to, both, learn as well as collaborate and contribute with best minds in the industry; to tackle challenges of scale and criticality that will broaden your engineering horizons.

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. 

• Own and show strong technical and non-technical leadership in driving the product E2E.
• Create a team culture of quality first mentality that directly contributes to delivering high quality features and changes as part of the stack.
• Research and deep dive into technical issues and design challenges.
• Collaborate cross organization to deliver key features in Azure storage.
• Contribute to the overall technical direction of Azure storage alongside other leads and managers across geo locations.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate

Required Qualifications:

• 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 equivalent experience. 

• 1+ year(s) experience in building quality products and services, preferably in distributed systems, systems programming, and multi-threaded programming

  • Including experience with design and problem-solving skills focused on quality and engineering excellence at scale.

• 1+ year(s) experience in shipping products on time with high quality.

Other Qualifications: 

• 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 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. 
• 1+ year(s) of experierience with hands-on development including leading architecture for large scale system (storage, cloud computing) designing, and writing code, experience in coding.
• 1+ year(s) of experience demonstrating empathy for customers using the product.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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