Principal Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Are you excited about the possibility of working on the largest Object Storage service in the world? Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing and running the Persistent Cloud Storage for Microsoft Azure Cloud. Azure Storage consists of a Storage Platform which currently powers five different storage services - Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSql Key Value store), Queue Storage, File Storage (new SMB based File Storage) and Disk Storage. We are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud. The service hosts data from some of the largest companies in the world plus supports all of Microsoft's largest online businesses including Xbox, Skype and Bing and has scaled to store exabytes of customer data with the roadmap looking even better in terms of growth.

You can read more about the Service architecture here and about the current storage offerings here.

Storage is divided into three main layers - with the Partition Layer forming the heart of the system and provides the transactional support, querying capability, indexing, geo replication and multi tenancy. It is an exciting time for the team as we are working on expanding the range of supported scenarios for the service while working on the next version architecture of the storage service to support the next 100X growth. The problem space we are exploring includes removing size limits on storage accounts and individual storage objects, better isolation across different tenants, better scheduling of requests and background activities, geo replication as well as improved indexing. If you are excited about large scale data management problems, this is a unique opportunity to have an impact in a team unlike any other. This position offers opportunities to show technical depth including implementation details as well as ability to show technical leadership.

Basic qualifications:

* 10+ years of building scalable system software and/or Services
* BS degree or higher or equivalent experience

Preferred qualifications:

* Experience in writing multithreaded code in C++
* Hands on development experience including designing and writing code
* Proven ability to plan, schedule and deliver high quality software
* Passion for customers
* Good collaboration skills
* Strong distributed systems knowledge

Cloud Background check:

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

The specific role for this position is to work on the next generation of geo replication offering for Azure Storage. Geo replication capabilities offered by Azure Storage are unique as compared to the competition. We are working on offering more choices and control to the customers when it comes to how their data gets replicated across regions as part of evolving our High-Availability/Disaster Recovery capabilities to be a leader in the industry. The role will require the candidate to lead the technical strategy along with actual design and implementation of agreed upon solutions.

To be successful, you must thrive on solving problems related with data durability, availability and concurrency issues in a multi-tenant environment. You must have passion for storage and distributed systems. You will be challenged daily as you build the largest storage solution Microsoft has. The engineer in this role must show technical leadership in helping articulate the technical direction over multiple releases.