Principal Engineer - Azure Storage at Microsoft
About the role
Are you excited by the challenge of building highly scalable distributed storage systems that preserve exabytes of data for decades? The Azure Archive Storage team builds Microsoft’s cloud-scale archival storage solution, delivering secure, cost-effective, and energy-conscious long-term storage for customers around the world. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your expertise in large-scale distributed storage, grow your technical leadership across Azure Storage, and shape the future of a…
Interview process at Microsoft
Balanced - coding, design, and behavioral with equal weight. Less brutally-competitive vibe than FAANG peers but the bar is real. Team-fit matters more than at Amazon.
- Recruiter screen
- Technical phone screen (45 min, 1 coding problem)
- Full loop: 4 rounds - 2 coding, 1 design (system or component), 1 'as-appropriate' (senior manager, cross-functional)
- Team-specific chat
- Offer
Platforms used: internal loop, CodeSignal for some roles
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