Are you eager to shape the future of cloud computing and solve engineering challenges at a scale few can imagine? Join the Microsoft Azure Storage Engineering team as a Principal Technical Program Manager - Azure Storage, and take on a pivotal, high-impact role influencing the core of Azure’s software infrastructure. In this position, you’ll leverage your deep technical expertise and strategic vision to drive transformative programs aimed at elevating the reliability and scalability of our platform.
This isn’t just any technical role - you’ll synthesize complex requirements, lead the creation of innovative proof of concepts and prototypes, and evaluate cutting-edge design alternatives. Your work will span multiple teams, where you’ll formalize ambitious program roadmaps and coordinate tactical execution, ensuring alignment across diverse engineering groups. With a blend of technical insight and business savvy, you’ll also identify strategic investment opportunities and chart Azure Storage’s direction through cross-team integration and collaboration, both within Azure and across Microsoft.
If you thrive on tackling hyperscale cloud platform problems and want to make a visible impact on the future of Azure, this is your chance.
You will bring expertise as a Principal Technical Program Manager leading hyperscale cloud initiatives, with a proven ability to synthesize complex requirements and provide strategic direction to technical teams. This candidate balances visionary thinking with meticulous attention to detail, exercises strong analytical skills and pragmatic technical judgment to drive critical decisions, and excels at communicating plans and building consensus with executive leadership to ensure alignment and sustained momentum across the organization.
Candidates should have experience combining both technical and business leadership on high impact, hyperscale programs. This position may require business travel on an as-needed basis.
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