New 
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Aug 03, 2025 | |
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OverviewFrom exabytes to zettabytes and beyond, Azure Storage powers the world's most advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercomputers and delivers industry-leading scale and performance in the cloud. You will join a team that designs and delivers the storage foundation for the largest workloads on the planet, supporting everything from mission-critical enterprise applications to next-generation AI systems. As part of this team, you'll help redefine what's possible at the intersection of hyperscale storage and artificial intelligence.As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will design, architect, and build distributed systems that improve quality, reduce cost of goods sold, accelerate release velocity, and boost developer productivity through AI-assisted workflows. You'll collaborate across teams to deliver platform-wide innovations that serve millions of users and services globally. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your expertise in cloud-scale infrastructure, influence critical architectural decisions, and shape the next generation of intelligent developer platforms. 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 one or more complex scenarios.Provides technical leadership for the 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 the company.Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product'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. | |