Principal Software Architect - Azure Object Storage

Have you ever imagined the world with an infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone? A place where everyone in the world can easily access their books/music/photos/video/any data from anywhere at any time via any means. Did you ever desire a universally accessible storage system to record all the knowledge known to mankind, to keep all the books/music/videos ever created, or to store all the data collected from all the scientists in the world for them to collaborate upon? Do you want to be part of a team that strives to bring these to reality? Do you like solving storage performance and scale problems for next generation workloads in Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Computing?

We are looking for a Principal Software Architect - Azure Object Storage who is passionate about distributed storage. We are building the next generation Object Storage capabilities for AI scenarios. Azure Blob Storage is the storage for world’s most powerful AI super computers. It also is the storage behind most popular AI applications like ChatGPT. We want to build novel capabilities for AI training and inferencing scenarios and reimagine storage for the AI era. This opportunity will allow you to thrive while solving challenges related to performance, availability, and scale for a distributed system.

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