Storage, the core of Microsoft's Azure Cloud, provides 10 exabytes of capacity across 50 regions, 100+ data centers, and over 1000 storage clusters. It powers millions of virtual machines, holds millions of hours of video, billions of photos, and vast amounts of analytics data.
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Azure Storage, you will play a key role in defining the technical direction of the most complex pieces of Azure Storage, while delivering continued improvements as well as pathbreaking features at a high quality. In addition, you will work on the latest server technologies and highly distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency and debuggability.
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services.
- Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions.
- Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis.
- Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives and driving measurable impact through innovation and execution excellence.
- Infuse AIOps practices to drive productivity, operational excellence, observability, incident detection, accurate root-cause analysis and mitigation.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, C/C++, Python
- OR equivalent experience.
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.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, C/C++, Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java, C/C++, Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years people management experience.
- Experience developing production software
- System design, algorithmic skills, knowledge of data structures
- Debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work cross teams and collaborate with partners
- Experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
- Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C#, Java, C/C++, Python or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire and every two years.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience; OR Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years technical engineering experience; OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years people management experience.
- Experience developing production software.
- System design, algorithmic skills, and knowledge of data structures.
- Debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work cross teams and collaborate with partners.
- Experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems.
- Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers.
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