Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Azure Storage is a highly distributed, massively scalable, and widely accessible cloud storage system designed to expand and support users across the globe. It serves as a foundational component of Azure’s infrastructure, providing the scale and reliability needed to meet worldwide demand. The Azure Storage Client team delivers the Storage Virtualization platform for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). This platform processes trillions of input and output operations each day across hundreds of data centers and more than one thousand clusters. The team is advancing storage offload through custom hardware accelerators, including Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), data processing units (DPUs), Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) for transport, and Non‑Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) as the storage interface for VMs. As a Software Engineer IC5, responsibilities include designing, implementing, and deploying software that enables hardware‑based storage offload technologies. This role is well suited for individuals interested in developing new hardware and software solutions that drive performance and scalability at the highest levels, contributing to the continued evolution of Azure’s storage capabilities.