Principal Engineer Manager - Azure Storage

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

96d • $139,900 - $274,800

About The Position

Are you ready to shape the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-scale storage solutions? The Azure Storage organization invites you to help drive innovation and solve technical challenges at hyperscale. This team supports mission-critical storage systems—including the core Storage platform and Azure Disks—ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for some of the world's most demanding AI workloads. You will collaborate with talented engineers to deliver next-generation systems that advance distributed storage and cloud technologies. As a Principal Engineer Manager - Azure Storage for Storage and Disks, 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. Your role will include driving AI-powered innovations to help Azure Storage scale effectively, resolving system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and improving resiliency. You will also work across organizational boundaries to support a wide range of Azure products, expanding your influence and contributing to platform-wide improvements. This opportunity offers a chance to deepen your expertise in distributed systems, Azure Storage, and Azure Disks, while sharpening both technical and leadership skills. You will play a key role in developing advanced solutions that support global AI applications and contribute to the evolution of cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, C# OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with Cloud and large distributed systems architectures.
• 6+ years of experience in software development with a focus on large distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience being a technical lead.

Nice To Haves

• 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree