New 
Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Nevada, Reno | |
| 6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map) | |
 Sep 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you excited about the possibility of working on the largest cloud storage service in the world? Azure Storage team is chartered with building and operating the persistent storage for the entire Microsoft Azure cloud! Azure Storage consists of a platform which currently powers six different storage services - Files, Disks, Blobs, Data Lake, Tables, and Queues.As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will drive and lead the design, implementation, and optimization of systems and workflows for new capacity enablement and secret management, which can scale up to support exabytes of storage and provide world-class reliability, performance, and security. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, hone your technical leadership skills, and develop deep business acumen.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.Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Reviews work items to deepen knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders and executes project plans, release plans, and work items.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. | |