The Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and operating the persistent cloud storage platform for Microsoft Azure. We are one of the foundational services in Azure and host data from some of the largest companies in the world, as well as Microsoft’s own major online businesses.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, who has strong technical expertise in low-level storage systems, datapath, and kernel-mode programming, and is passionate about building the next-generation storage platform to support new workloads like AI training and inference. If you love large-scale distributed systems and enjoy working on projects where you can define the scope, direction, and architecture of solutions that make a massive impact on Azure Storage, this could be the role for you! You will have the opportunity to make high-impact contributions every day as you build a hyperscale storage system.
You’ll be joining a talented, highly collaborative team responsible for engineering the lowest-level and most fundamental layers of Azure Storage. In this role, you will provide hands on technical leadership and help build the next generation of storage servers, ensuring high availability, durability, and cost efficiency, while resolving system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and improving resiliency. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge storage AI workloads for our largest AI customers, and about how new hardware innovations like DPUs (Data Processing Units) can be leveraged in such systems.
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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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