Principal Software Engineering Manager – Azure Storage

Are you excited about the possibility of changing the world by working on the largest Cloud Storage service? Come and join the Azure Storage team and contribute in revolutionizing it! The service hosts data of the largest companies in the world; supports all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses, including Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Teams, and Bing; and has scaled to store exabytes of customer data, with the roadmap looking even better in terms of growth.

Usage of Azure Storage ranges drastically - from hot access such as disks, to millisecond access such as video streaming data, to cold data such as archival data, and to hyperscale access, big data, machine learning, and many more! Each workload brings a new set of challenges and characteristics with formidable problems to solve!

We are striving to turn Azure Storage into not only the ubiquitous Cloud storage service but the only way to store data for any modern and pre-existing application at large scale.  Our mission is to build the world's most secure and dependable cloud storage platform. Powered by cutting-edge distributed systems technology, our platform is designed to set a new standard for scale, reliability and security in the cloud storage space.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in Azure Storage, you will lead our SFTP offering and other charters related to the Azure front end services, one of our core layers of the Azure Storage stack. Azure Storage front service exposes all the abstraction of Azure Storage such as VM Disks, Object Storage (Block Blob, Append Blob), ADLS (Azure Data Lake Service) Gen 2, Cloud SAN, SFTP, NFS to our customers. It is also responsible for all security, DDOS protection, noisy neighborhood isolation, authorization for the Azure Storage service and implementing the exposed protocol. You will also help drive and improve the reliability and performance of the service. This role will involve design, implementing, and shipping product code that scales to the largest and most demanding storage and latency requirements on the planet. This opportunity will allow you to work with and influence dozens of teams in different geographical locations around the world, so you will make an impact both to people within the company and outside!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Manage the team: Attract and retain talent while supporting the growth and career development of team members. 
• Own and show solid technical and non-technical leadership in driving the SFTP product E2E. 
• Create a team culture of quality first mentality that directly contributes to delivering high quality features and changes as part of the stack. 
• Research and deep-dive into technical issues and bring clarity to the team as needed. 
• Own planning and ensure top deliverables are met for the success of Microsoft, Azure Storage, and the team. 
• Contribute to the overall technical direction of Azure storage alongside other managers across geo locations. 
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate