Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Overview
The Azure Storage Data Processing Unit (DPU) organization is looking for a talented and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to design and develop the next generation of our storage backend. We are building the next generation of Microsoft’s cloud storage solution - Microsoft Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world. Drive innovation with the latest hardware and software technology for hyperscale cloud storage. Our team is building next generation storage solutions using Fungible DPUs with focus on security, reliability, performance, and efficiency.
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Storage DPU Infrastructure team, you will be a leader on the team and enable Azure’s infrastructure to support, deploy, and integrate with DPU-based storage nodes. You will provide mentoring and support for less senior members of the team. You will help drive integration efforts with existing and forward-looking datacenter control plane software. You will be involved in all phases of the software lifecycle: design, implementation, test, deployment, and support. This is a great opportunity to work on exciting new technology, grow your career, and sharpen your technical skills.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
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Responsibilities
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.