Principal Software Engineer

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Are you looking for an opportunity to work with the latest Azure offerings and push the limits of cloud computing? Do you want to solve real-life challenges in intelligent cloud and enable customers to achieve more? If so, we have the perfect role for you!
We are part of the Microsoft Specialized Cloud organization, delivering Azure to customers on their premises. Our team is innovating new technologies for managing Edge Devices from Azure in a safe, secure, reliable, and scalable model for our global customers across various Azure Geographies. We pride ourselves in developing technologies that enhance customer experience and enable using edge computing to address customer workload needs and managing edge device from Azure. We build ecosystems that bring intelligence to locations where customers are running their business.
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.  
As a Principal Software Engineer in the Microsoft Specialized Cloud team, you will help development for a variety of Edge Computing products and platforms. You will be responsible for bringing in the latest Azure offering in Customer's Edge locations including disconnected locations. You will get the opportunity to define the limits of Cloud and Edge Computing and work with customers to solve real-world problems. This will be a place where you will innovate to overcome current technology limitation, bring in solutions that solve resiliency, scale, security at a completely different level. As a team, we are interested in smart, self-driven individuals, with a positive can-do attitude and enjoy developing elegant solutions. We value passion, creativity, teamwork, agility, accountability, and the desire to learn new complex technical areas. An unquenchable drive to write code, own quality, and a passion for helping ship high-quality software is a must. Using AI for accelerating building reliable solutions is a must.
 If you're ready to take on the challenge of working with highly motivated engineers, with the latest of the Azure offering and taking them to new heights, then we'd love to hear from you! Please apply today and let's build the future together!

- Design and integrate highly reliable physical and software defined storage and file systems components for both Windows and Linux Operating Systems

- Ability to develop resilient clustering and virtualization solutions using Windows and Linux based clustering and hypervisors

- Design and architect scalable and distributed systems of Cloud Services for Managing Clustering, Hypervisor and storage on the edge

- Lead, raise standards, and foster data-driven and collaborative culture for the team

- Able to analyze, debug and clearly articulate complex issues and work with new technologies including AI

- Partner with product teams across company to manage dependencies, jointly deliver updates, and continuously improve engineering capabilities

- 10+ years of experience in Software Development in distributed systems and Operating Systems.Bachelor’s/master's degree or equivalent in Computer science or related field required

- 5+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring Failover Clustering, Resilient Storage Technologies, Hyper-V management

- Proven ability to work with SAN(iSCSI and FC) storage and ability to debug complex interoperability issues between host and SAN infra

- A strong Computer Science background with solid C#, Rust, Java, C/C++ programming, debugging skills is highly desiredGreat design and problem-solving skills, with a strong bias for architecting for performance, scalability, security, and reliability

- Deep understanding of efficient data structures and algorithms

- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore

- Experience with AI/ML and LLMs is highly preferred

- 5+ years of experience in systems level software development in C/C++/Rust

- 5+ years of Systems Engineering experience with multithreaded programming, synchronization, locking, etc

- Knowledge of advanced data structures, including, but not limited to: BTrees, Hash Tables- 2+ years of experience with kernel and device driver development in Linux or Windows.

- Proven experience designing solutions utilizing Failover Clustering, Storage Spaces, Software Defined  Storage, Hyper-V and Windows Server technologies.

- Experience with storage/file systems in Windows, Linux, Kubernetes

- Experience in analyzing storage performance and functionality

- Familiarity with current and emerging storage technologies.

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. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.