Principal Silicon Engineer - Storage

Overview

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Storage Engineer to Architect and optimize our enterprise storage infrastructure in support of Silicon Development. This role is pivotal in ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and security of storage systems that are critical to EDA tool simulations and workflows.

The candidate will possess deep technical expertise across On-Premises and Cloud SAN/NAS storage technologies, replication strategies, backup and recovery solutions, and performance tuning for high-throughput, low-latency environments.

This global role requires close collaboration with Operations and Silicon Design teams to gather workload forecasts, analyze usage patterns, and ensure the efficiency and reliability of storage services. You will play a key role in shaping the future of storage infrastructure that powers Microsoft's silicon innovation, operating at the intersection of infrastructure engineering and advanced semiconductor development.

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Responsibilities

• Architect, Design, implement, and manage enterprise storage solutions across a diverse range of on-premises and cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Continuously monitor storage performance and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks while planning for future growth.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including silicon design, CAD, operations, and infrastructure engineering, to align storage solutions with evolving business and technical requirements.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for storage architecture, operational procedures, and compliance policies.
• Driving technical execution and mentoring other engineers to build team capability.
• Ensure adherence to data governance, compliance, and security standards, including encryption, access control, and audit readiness.
• Support backup and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity, availability, and rapid recovery for critical workloads.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. (required)
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise storage administration. (required)
• 4+ years with scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation. (required)
• 4+ Years supporting Engineering at a semiconductor company (required)
• Expertise in storage platforms such as NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, or similar. (required)
• Good knowledge of storage protocols (iSCSI, FC, NFS, SMB). (required)
• Experience with backup solutions (e.g., Veeam, Commvault, Veritas). (preferred)
• Storage-related certifications (e.g., NetApp NCDA, EMC Proven Professional). (preferred)
• Experience with cloud storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob, Azure ANF, Google Cloud Storage). (preferred)
  
  

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.

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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.