Principal Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Multiple Locations)

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
Australia , Multiple Locations

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

Are you passionate about distributed systems, massive scalability, and durability? Are you interested in solving the challenges of Cloud-scale Storage? If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is the perfect fit for you. Azure Storage is a foundational service in the Azure Cloud which powers six key storage services: Blob Storage, Table Storage (NoSQL Key-Value store), Queue Storage, Data Lake Storage, File Storage, and Disk Storage. These services host data from some of the largest companies in the world and support all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Office365, and Bing while scaling to store many exabytes of customer data.

Job Responsibility:

Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers

Requirements:

8+ years of professional software development experience building scalable, distributed services with C++ or C#
5 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Nice to have:

Experience of both C++ and C#
A passion for distributed systems and large-scale storage
Experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming
Solid REST API knowledge
Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical skills
Proven ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software
A determined engineer, someone who is disciplined about reliability, performance and architecture
Personable and positive: we want people with a high emotional intelligence
Driven: Interested in owning cross team initiatives and improvements to improve Azure Storage
3+ year(s) of experience in Security / Authentication areas

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 10, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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