Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running the persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure cloud. We are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud and host data from some of the largest companies in the world plus all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Teams, and Bing.
Azure Cloud has one of the highest number of data centers amongst all the cloud providers. Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, is designed to scale out and serve the entire world with hundreds of thousands of devices in our data centers across the world. This role provides a unique opportunity to work on both software and hardware optimizations that will help drive the scale of Azure Storage to the next level. If you like the challenges of large-scale distributed systems, love to work on new projects where you can define the work, scope, direction, and architect new solutions to make an impact on a massive product like Azure storage, this could be position for you! You will have an opportunity to make high impact changes on a daily basis as you build a hyperscale storage system that may indirectly or directly be used daily by of your friends and family.
We are looking for a Principal Engineering Manager who would help build and lead a strong team. You will be working on the cutting edge of distributed systems and high scale storage on some of the largest storage systems on the planet, solving the interesting challenges that come with high scale, rapid growth, and continued innovations. You would be leading a talented, highly collaborative team, with responsibility for engineering the most fundamental layers of the Azure storage service. In addition, you will be helping provide technical leadership to the team and help with cross team initiatives. The role brings exposure to cutting edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed system technologies, with broad opportunity to influence both the business and the industry.
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The Principal Software Engineering Manager's responsibilities include:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Prior experience and/or subject matter expertise in Storage or File-Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and/or Applications at scale
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