Principal Engineer Manager Azure Storage

Job description

Are you ready to shape the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-scale storage solutions?

The Azure Storage organization invites you to help drive innovation and solve technical challenges at hyperscale.

This team supports mission-critical storage systems—including the core Storage platform and Azure Disks—ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for some of the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

You will collaborate with talented engineers to deliver next-generation systems that advance distributed storage and cloud technologies.

As a Principal Engineer Manager - Azure Storage for Storage and Disks, you will lead a high-impact team focused on enhancing the storage control plane and disks platform to meet the demands of rapidly growing AI-scale workloads.

Your role will include driving AI-powered innovations to help Azure Storage scale effectively, resolving system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and improving resiliency.

You will also work across organizational boundaries to support a wide range of Azure products, expanding your influence and contributing to platform-wide improvements.

This opportunity offers a chance to deepen your expertise in distributed systems, Azure Storage, and Azure Disks, while sharpening both technical and leadership skills.

You will play a key role in developing advanced solutions that support global AI applications and contribute to the evolution of cloud infrastructure.

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.

**Responsibilities**

+ Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
+ Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
+ Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
+ Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
+ Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
+ Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, C#
+ OR equivalent experience.
+ 6+ years of hands-on experience with Cloud and large distributed systems architectures.
+ 6+ years of experience in software development with a focus on large distributed systems.
+ 2+ years of experience being a technical lead.

**Other Qualifications:**

+ Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
+ These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
+ 4+ years people management experience.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year.

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay %20 )

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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