Senior Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 15 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Moderate to high offer value similar to the prior job, indicating focus on crucial Azure data solutions without specified salary ranges.
- Participate in innovative Azure Storage projects
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- Engaged role within a reputable tech environment
- Salary details not disclosed, potentially affecting interest
Pros
- Contributions to the large-scale Azure Storage infrastructure.
- Flexible working arrangements and emphasis on employee well-being.
- Diverse responsibilities stimulating professional growth.
Cons
- Lack of clear salary information may affect candidate interest.
- Clear junior level preference could restrict growth for experienced hires.
- Complex corporate policies may pose challenges.
Who it's for
Mid-Level • Fully Remote, unspecified office requirements
Good fit
- Mid-level engineers with interests in data-driven roles
- Candidates wanting significant roles in Azure development
- Professionals eager to tackle technical challenges effectively.
Not recommended for
- Junior candidates with insufficient skills
- Individuals favoring stability over innovative roles
- Those resistant to working in uncertain environments.
Motivation fit
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Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in 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 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience working with file storage or distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor'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 Master'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.
- 1+ year(s) of experience with a hardware background.
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.
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Responsibilities
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
- 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.
