Azure Files team is looking for a talented and highly motivated Principal Software Engineer to design and develop the next generation of the Azure file storage stack. We are building Microsoft’s cloud storage solution - Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world, see Azure Storage paper. Azure Files is the foundational file system and file sharing service built in Azure Storage, supporting industry-standard SMB(server message block)/CIFS(common internet file system), NFS(network file system) and REST(representational state transfer) protocols, that is fully compatible with on-premises file servers, both Windows and Linux-based, can scale up to exabytes of storage, and provide world-class reliability, performance, and security. For more details on Azure Files: Azure Files, Introduction to Azure Files. We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate looking to grow at a fast pace matching our service and team’s growth, have a passion for writing high quality software and enjoy collaborating with a dynamic team.
As a Principal Software Engineer- Azure Files, in the Azure Files Storage team, you will develop features at the core storage and the protocol layers of the service, including architectural changes to significantly increase scalability and performance of the file system. You will have the opportunity to explore distributed system design, file protocols (NFS, SMB) and help solve the performance and scale requirements of the most demanding workloads, used by the most impactful companies and services. You will have opportunity to make high-impact changes daily as you build a hyper-scale file storage system that powers the world.
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