Are you passionate about distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability? Are you interested in solving the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage? If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is the perfect fit for you. Azure Storage is a foundational service in the Azure Cloud which powers six key storage services: Blob Storage, Table Storage (Not Only Structured Query Language (NoSQL) Key-Value store), Queue Storage, Data Lake Storage, File Storage, and Disk Storage. These services host data from some of the largest companies in the world and support all of Microsoft's largest online businesses including Xbox, Office365, and Bing while scaling to store many exabytes of customer data. The Microsoft Azure Storage team is seeking a technically proficient Principal Software Engineer with solid design, coding, and testing skills, to develop strategy for and implement validation infrastructure services, and automate validation of Azure's massive, distributed storage system. We value passion for scalable storage, distributed systems, and cloud services. The ideal candidate brings a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, along with strong debugging, testing, and analytical abilities. We're also seeking someone who is customer-focused and excited to deliver high-quality, end-to-end experiences. This role offers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions daily on a hyperscale system that may be part of your friends' and family's everyday lives. 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 Play a crucial role in product quality by overseeing end-to-end scenario validation integration work performed by team members. Design, develop, and operate scalable, low latency and high throughput cloud services and frameworks to stress storage backend. Streamline release qualification process and lead efforts to fully automate the release pipeline with a relentless focus on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD). Take an active role and partner with peer teams and external partners to ensure new storage features meet target availability, security, and reliability goals, with an emphasis on quality upstream. Drive quality initiatives to streamline release quality gates and release pipeline. Support, mentor, and help engineers grow to build an inclusive team environment where everyone can deliver their best work. 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. Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 1 year(s) experience in testing systems at a large scale with various testing techniques including unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, fault injection, performance testing, scale testing, and long-haul testing. Other Requirements: 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: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR 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 equivalent experience. 1 year(s) of Quality Assurance (QA) lifecycle, methodologies, and best practices proficiency. 1 year(s) of demoonstrated ability to plan, schedule, and deliver quality software. 1 year(s) of technical communication skills. 1 year(s) of experience mentoring, and developing engineers. \azurecorejobs Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
