Principal Engineering - Azure Storage
Microsoft · United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · Software Engineering
principal
software engineering
Principal Engineer
tech_leadership
· Posted May 19, 2026
$142,800 – $274,800
USD per year
About this role
Microsoft is hiring a principal-level Principal Engineer in the software engineering function based in United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, C. Compensation is listed at $142,800–$274,800 per year.
- Role
- Principal Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
- Department
- Software Engineering
- Posted
- May 19, 2026
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Job description
from Microsoft careersOverview
Are you ready to shape the future of Artificial intelligence AI-scale storage solutions? Join the Azure Storage organization, where you will drive innovation and solve technical challenges at hyperscale. This team powers mission-critical storage systems—including both the core Storage platform and Azure Disks—ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability for the world’s most demanding AI workloads. You’ll collaborate with brilliant minds to deliver next-generation systems that push the boundaries of what’s possible in distributed storage and cloud technologies.
As a Principal Engineer in Azure Storage and Disks, you will lead a high-impact team driving enhancements across our storage control plane and disks platform, ensuring they can meet the demands of exponential AI-scale workloads. You will spearhead AI-driven innovations to help Azure Storage reach effectively infinite scale, tackling system bottlenecks, optimizing performance, and enhancing resiliency. You will also work cross-organization to empower numerous Azure products, multiplying your impact radius and driving platform-wide improvements. This opportunity will allow you to grow your expertise in distributed systems, Azure Storage, and Disks, sharpen your technical and leadership skills, and contribute to cutting-edge solutions that power AI applications on a global scale.
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