Principal Engineer Manager Azure Storage

About the Role

The Principal Engineer Manager Azure Storage at Microsoft is poised to shape the future of AI-scale storage solutions. You will lead a high-impact team focused on enhancing the storage control plane and disks platform to meet the demands of rapidly growing AI-scale workloads. This role involves driving AI-powered innovations, resolving system bottlenecks, optimizing performance and resiliency, and collaborating across organizational boundaries for platform-wide improvements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements.
• Lead teams to develop design documents and monitor dependencies.
• Optimize, debug, refactor and reuse code for performance improvements.
• Coordinate project plans and release plans with multiple groups.
• Oversee product development and scaling to meet customer requirements.

Qualifications

Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 6+ years technical engineering experience including coding in C# or equivalent, hands-on cloud and distributed systems experience, and 2+ years as a technical lead.

Preferred: Advanced degree or additional years of experience, 4+ years people management experience, security screening compliance.

Compensation & Application

This role includes a competitive pay range (USD $139,900 - $274,800, with higher ranges in select locations) and benefits. Microsoft accepts applications until October 15th, 2025. Additional benefits and pay information are available at Microsoft Careers.

Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• Azure Storage
• Cloud Architecture
• Performance Optimization
• Scalability
• AI-scale Workloads
• C#
• Leadership
• Software Development
• Team Collaboration