Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 26, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you excited about contributing to the future of cloud storage services? The Azure Storage team is seeking individuals who are eager to help shape planet-scale cloud storage solutions. This is an opportunity to be part of a transformative journey in building resilient, scalable, and innovative storage technologies.As part of the team, you will support data hosting for some of the world's largest organizations and Microsoft's core online services, including Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Microsoft Teams, and Bing. The team is scaling to manage exabytes of customer data and solving challenges across the spectrum-from frequently accessed data to long-term archival storage-while continuously advancing cloud storage capabilities.In the role of a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage on the Azure Storage front end team, you will design, troubleshoot, and deliver new features that enhance the Azure Storage service. You will work with engineers across the globe to address challenges of scale and reliability, contribute to service quality improvements through automation, and ensure performance and cost efficiency. 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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.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 (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's 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. | |