New 
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 26, 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 next generation storage solutions including for new workloads like AI training and inferencing. If you love large-scale distributed systems and enjoy working on innovative projects where you can define the scope, direction, and architecture of solutions that deliver a massive impact on Azure Storage, this could be the role for you!You'll be joining a talented, highly collaborative team responsible for engineering the lowest, most fundamental layers of Azure Storage. You will provide technical leadership to build the next generation of Storage Servers with Data Processing Units using advanced Erasure Coding algorithms to ensure high availability, durability, and cost efficiency of data storage, while scaling effectively, eliminating system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and enhancing resiliency. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed systems technologies, with significant 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.
ResponsibilitiesLead identification of areas of innovation to excel at support of AI workloads for our leading customers.Identify critical efficiency, data availability and durability improvements using advanced Erasure Coding algorithms.Determine necessary performance improvement plans and their priorities and document work needed, including any dependencies.Hands-on leadership of the engineering work needed to drive performance and efficiency improvements and to drive innovative new features.Develop and document new ideas and prototype them in partnership with others as needed. Work with appropriate stakeholders (Leadership Team, Product Management) to drive new ideas to success.Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt 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. | |