Are you passionate about distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability? Are you interested in solving the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage? If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is the perfect fit for you. Azure Storage is a foundational service in the Azure Cloud which powers six key storage services: Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSQL Key-Value store), Queue Storage, Data Lake Storage, File Storage, and Disk Storage. These services host data from some of the largest companies in the world and support all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Office365, and Bing while scaling to store many exabytes of customer data.

The Microsoft Azure Storage team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with a strong and proven record of top-notch design and code development skills. This position will play a key role in defining the technical direction of the most complex pieces of Azure Storage, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, quality and debuggability. We are looking for a talented software engineering who is customer-obsessed and passionate about creating high-quality end-to-end experiences that delight customers. You will have an opportunity to make high impact changes daily as you work on a hyper-scale storage system that may indirectly or directly be used daily by your friends and family.

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