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Principal Software Engineer - Azure StorageMicrosoft · Australia
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Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage

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🗓️ Posted 2026-09-30 Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$15,800–A$20,800/mo

About the Company

Every company has a mission. What's ours To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn't just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide. Computer Software Specialties: Business Software, Developer Tools, Home & Educational Software, Tablets, Search, Advertising, Servers, Windows Operating System, Windows Applications & Platforms, Smartphones, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, Future of Work, Productivity, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Laptops, Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality, Gaming, Developers, IT Professional

About the Role

Azure Storage, the core of Microsoft's Azure Cloud, provides 10 exabytes of capacity across 50 regions, 100+ data centers, and over 1000 storage clusters. It powers millions of virtual machines, holds millions of hours of video, billions of photos, and vast amounts of analytics data. As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will play a key role in defining the technical direction of the most complex pieces of Azure Storage, while delivering continued improvements as well as pathbreaking features at a high quality. In addition, you will work on the latest server technologies and highly distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency and debuggability. 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

  • ● Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services
  • ● Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions
  • ● Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis
  • ● Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives and driving measurable impact through innovation and execution excellence
  • ● Infuse AIOps practices to drive productivity, operational excellence, observability, incident detection, accurate root-cause analysis and mitigation

Requirements

  • ● Required Qualifications:
  • ● Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND min 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, or Python
  • ● OR equivalent experience
  • ● Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, or Python
  • ● OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, or Python
  • ● OR equivalent experience
  • ● + years experience with:
  • ● Developing production software
  • ● System design, algorithmic skills, and data structures
  • ● Debugging, testing, and problem-solving
  • ● Designing, building and running large scale and highly available Cloud services or distributed systems
  • ● Automation, performance, and building highly available distributed systems at scale
  • ● Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layer
  • ● 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
  • ● On-call requirements for this role
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  • ● 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.