Principal Software Engineer

Did you ever dream about developing a cloud service that many major Microsoft services and S&P 500 companies depend on? Azure Storage team is chartered with building and operating the persisted storage for the Microsoft Azure cloud. Everyone needs to store data, most of them need to store Files and we are the place they do it.

Azure Storage consists of a distributed high scale service which runs in dozens of data centers across the world. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who wants to change the world and grow their career while doing that. An individual that can drive design and implementation of the Azure Files service (Azure Files - Microsoft Azure), as well as oversee its application to customer workloads. Azure Files offers fully managed cloud storage that is compatible with any workload by supporting the most commonly used file protocols: SMB, NFS or REST. Our customers run on Windows, Linux and others. The service scales up to exabytes of storage, and provide world-class reliability, performance, and security.

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Basic Qualifications:

• 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, C++, or C#
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in scalable system software and/or Services

Other Requirements:

• 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Powershell, 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, Powershell, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in development, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience in system and API designs.
• Experience in critical production online service environments.
• Experience with debugging tools like WinDBG, Wireshart, etc. is a plus

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 5, 2024. 

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Your responsibilities will include developing features to extend core service capabilities with focus on security, performance, and reliability for Azure Files and Azure File Sync technologies.
• You will design and implement the Files Resource Provider service, in accordance with Azure Resource Manager (Azure ARM’s) RP protocols. Improve service scalability and resilience to produce a highly available and scalable Resource Provider solution.
• You will design and implement systems to help operate services reliably, detect and mitigate incidents, and analyze usage and customer data to improve the product and customer experience.
• You will be a part of a world class, collaborative team of engineers building software using agile methodologies and DevOps to run live site for the service.
• You will have a platform to learn and research technologies, propose solutions, evaluate multiple design options, make recommendations and decisions, implement solid and efficient engineering practices, and work cross-group with our partners to build world class end to end solutions that will delight our customers.
• You need to be passionate about technology, innovation and creating distributed cloud platform services and enterprise-grade software, as well as working on new features in a relatively young and fast paced product development environment.
• You should be motivated to make an impact, eager to learn and grow, comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and enjoy creative thinking.

Other

• Embody our Culture  &  Values