Principal Software Engineer

Have you ever imagined the world with an infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone A place where everyone in the world can easily access their books/music/photos/video/any data from anywhere at any time via any means (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, PCs, smart devices, etc). Did you ever desire a universally accessible storage system to record all the knowledge known to mankind, to keep all the books/music/videos ever created, or to store all the data collected from all the scientists in the world for them to collaborate upon Do you want to be part of a team that strives to bring these to reality

If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is what you are looking for. We are building 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. We continue to have tremendous hockey stick growth, with many Exabyte's of data stored, and are designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale to support demand growth for the coming years.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about distributed storage, more specifically on building a common platform for the Control Plane in Azure Storage. We are looking for talented engineers that are comfortable working on a fast-paced and high impact team. The Azure Storage Control Plane team is a platform that will power Azure Storage services and provide resiliency and scalability to the services. Our mantra is to innovate, grow and learn. The Job provides you an opportunity to build the Control plane Platform that will power all of Azure Storage solve challenges related to scale and reliability for a distributed system opportunity to collaborate with cross functional teams to design storage solutions that meet performance, availability and durability work in a world class engineering team with a senior team of engineers, architects, and leadership a set of peers and mentors that will help you grow your career on the fast track to be part of a dynamic community - that will enable you to, both, learn as well as collaborate and contribute with best minds in the industry to tackle challenges of scale and criticality that will broaden your engineering horizons.
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