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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect and deliver scalable control plane and management plane services for Azure Storage to power AI platforms, autonomous agents, and hyperscale cloud services.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure & AI Engineering)

Builds

Scalable distributed storage systems, databases, and infrastructure services for AI training, inference, and agent orchestration.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, AI Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems design, hyperscale cloud platform operations, storage service architecture, AI-assisted software development, agentic workflows, automated code generation, system reliability engineering, incident response, technical leadership

Preferred skills

AI-enabled software engineering practices, LLM-powered coding assistants, intelligent operational tooling, engineering transformation strategy

Technologies

Azure Storage, C#, C++, Java

Responsibilities

Lead design and evolution of Azure Storage capabilities for AI-scale workloads; Drive innovations in distributed systems and resource orchestration; Leverage AI engineering tools to accelerate development and improve code quality; Define how AI transforms software engineering at hyperscale; Partner with AI platform teams to automate engineering and operational workflows; Influence long-term architecture and technical roadmap for Azure Storage; Serve as DRI for critical service components ensuring system health and reliability.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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