New 
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 14, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and operating the persistent cloud storage 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 who is passionate about building and optimizing a world-class distributed file system. If you love large-scale distributed systems and enjoy working on new 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 daily as you build a hyperscale storage system where your work can generate value worth millions of dollars.You'll be joining a talented, highly collaborative team responsible for engineering the lowest and most fundamental layers of Azure Storage-specifically helping to build the next generation of Storage Servers ensuring high availability, durability, and cost efficiency, while scaling effectively, resolving system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and improving resiliency. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed systems technologies, with broad opportunities to influence both the business and the industry.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.
ResponsibilitiesWorks with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. | |