Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join its Azure Storage Infrastructure team, which develops high-performance cloud-scale storage and networking solutions. The role designs and develops software to onboard hardware accelerators, processors, transports, and cluster-level performance improvements while contributing across the full software development lifecycle and collaborating with Research, Storage, Compute, and other organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with stakeholders to derive scenarios and user requirements
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
• 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C and C++
  • OR equivalent experience
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• 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, and C++
  • 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 and C++
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years experience with kernel development, embedded systems, hardware offloads, or virtualization
• 8+ years experience with storage datapath performance, memory management, or device virtualization
• 4+ years experience with performance tuning, measurement, and data analysis
• 6+ years experience with Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), or measurement and validation