• Lead the development of AI-powered products and platforms (Navi, Agent Studio, AI Platform services) • Act as a hands-on technical leader, guiding architecture, design, and key engineering decisions • Drive the transition from AI experimentation to production-grade, reliable systems • Partner with product to turn ambiguous AI use cases into scalable solutions • Build and grow a high-performing, globally distributed team (US & India) • Balance speed of innovation with long-term system quality and maintainability • Establish strong engineering practices across design, testing, and delivery • Define and track metrics for delivery, system performance, and quality • Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and future leaders

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of AI/ML systems from concept to production • Define technical standards, best practices, and AI engineering patterns across teams • Translate complex business problems into scalable AI solutions • Guide model development, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management • Partner with Product and Engineering leaders on AI strategy and roadmap • Mentor senior and junior engineers; raise overall technical maturity • Ensure responsible AI practices, security, privacy, and compliance • Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation initiatives

• Ensure high reliability and correctness for Treasury's core systems — the ledger, payment origination, card settlement, reconciliation, and financial controls • Lead delivery of new features and capabilities across money movement, accounting, and reporting surfaces • Raise the bar on operational excellence: observability, incident response, on-call readiness, and pragmatic reliability improvements • Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned along the way • Partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements early and keep engineering time focused on the highest-impact work • Lead efforts to improve systems, processes, and documentation so new team members can ramp quickly • Participate in and help evolve the team's on-call rotation

Overview Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running the persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure cloud. We are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud and host data from some of the largest companies in the world plus all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer Manager who is interested in building and optimizing a world class distributed file system. If you love large scale distributed systems, love to work on new projects where you can define the work, scope, direction, and architect new solutions to make an impact on a massive product like Azure Storage, this could be position for you! You would be joining a talented, highly collaborative team, with responsibility for engineering the lowest most fundamental layers of the Azure storage service. You will be working on the next generation storage platform being built on storage servers with Data Processing Units (DPU). The role brings exposure to cutting edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed system technologies, with broad opportunity to influence both the business and the industry as you help build the next generation hyperscale storage system to support AI workloads for our largest AI customers, and about how new hardware innovations like DPUs can be leveraged in such systems. 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. Responsibilities - Defines the strategy, designs/develops products and builds & grows the team. - Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. - Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. - Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams. - Provides technical leadership for the team as well as partners. - Drive product roadmap and execution with clarity, including translating abstract problem statement into a high-quality product strategy and design. Qualifications Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++ - OR equivalent experience. Other Requirements: - Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: - Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications: - Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++ - OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++ - OR equivalent experience. - 4+ years of experience in lower level storage stack and storage datapath. - 6+ years of experience in Storage, File-Systems, Distributed Systems, Performance, Operating Systems, and/or Kernel mode programming. #azurecorejobs Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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