Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 04, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Azure Storage is a highly distributed, massively scalable, and ubiquitously accessible cloud storage platform. To meet the ever-increasing demands of performance and capacity for existing and new Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads, the Azure storage team is building the storage stack that will run on the custom designed Data Processors. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage who is interested in tackling the challenges in developing and deploying next generation storage at Azure scale. As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will have a chance to influence, lead, and work on architecture, design, implementation, and optimizations of DPU storage stack. You will be involved in all phases of the storage lifecycle, design, implementation, test, deployment, and support. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth and hone your technical skills. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Reviews work items to deepen knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders and executes project plans, release plans, and work items.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple groups' project plans, release plans, and work items.Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.Embody our culture and values | |