Principal Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High opportunity for experienced software engineers to influence technical direction at a leading cloud provider.
- Influential role in a leading cloud provider
- Mentorship opportunities in a collaborative environment
- Focus on cutting-edge cloud technologies
Pros
- Pioneering role in Azure Storage with high visibility within Microsoft.
- Opportunity to mentor and lead other engineers.
- Work in a highly innovative environment focused on cutting-edge technologies.
Cons
- High level of expected expertise can deter some candidates.
- Potentially intense work environment due to the nature of cloud projects.
- Limited remote work flexibility (0 days in-office, remote)
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Fully remote
Good fit
- Senior software engineers with a background in cloud services
- Leaders passionate about mentoring and guiding teams
- Individuals keen on working with large-scale systems
Not recommended for
- Less experienced engineers or recent graduates
- Candidates disinterested in technical leadership roles
- Those seeking a non-technical career path
Motivation fit
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Principal Software Engineer
Multiple Locations, Australia
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Overview
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
- OR Python
- OR 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, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of proficiency in C/C++/C# object-oriented programming
- 5+ years of technical communication skills.
- 5+ years of expert knowledge on Cloud Scale storage or Distributed systems.
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Responsibilities
- 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.
