Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$143k-$275kDetected 1 day ago
C++AzureData AnalysisEmbedded SystemsResearch
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About the role
- The Azure Storage Infrastructure team is hiring for agile and innovative teams across devices, filesystems, hardware offloads, and operations.
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
- You will collaborate with organizations across Research, Storage, Compute, and more to power the future of Compute and AI workloads.
- Your work will encompass the entire software development lifecycle, including operations, scaling, training, and support.
- As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals.
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.
- 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++
Nice to have
- 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
- https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
- This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills
- Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Compensation
- $143k-$275k
Company info
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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
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