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Job opportunity
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Source: Microsoft careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $165,600 — $331,200 USD per year
- Employment
- full time
Employer job description
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Overview
The Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) team is seeking an experienced software engineer to help shape the next generation of storage technologies powering Microsoft's largest and most critical services. ESE serves as a foundational storage platform for products including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory), Cosmos DB, and other hyperscale cloud services, making storage efficiency, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization critical to Microsoft's future growth.
As storage hardware evolves toward higher-density and lower-cost media such as QLC SSDs, SMR drives, Zoned Storage, and future storage technologies, traditional database architectures face increasing challenges around write amplification, endurance, space efficiency, and performance predictability.
This role will drive engineering efforts to evolve ESE for these emerging environments through a combination of architectural innovation, performance engineering, and evaluation of technologies and design patterns from modern open-source storage engines such as RocksDB, Pebble, and WiredTiger.