Principal Software Engineering Manager

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date posted

Sep 15, 2025

Job number

1875051

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25%

Role type

People Manager

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

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 (Not Only Structured Query Language (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.

The Microsoft Azure Storage team is seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager - Azure Storage to lead a team of talented engineers focused on improving service quality, chaos engineering, resiliency, and validation infrastructure. We are looking for a talented principal software engineering manager who is customer-obsessed and passionate about creating high-quality end-to-end experiences that delight customers. You will have an opportunity to make high impact changes daily as you work on a hyper-scale storage system that may indirectly or directly be used daily by your friends and family.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 2+ years of experience in testing systems at a large scale with various testing techniques including unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, fault injection, performance testing, scale testing, and long-haul testing.

Other Qualifications:

• 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, and 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.
• 4+ years of people management experience.
• 6+ years of experience of QA life cycle, methodologies, and best practices.
• 4+ years of proficiency planning, scheduling and delivering quality software.

• Lead team to design, develop, and operate scalable, low latency and high throughput cloud services and frameworks to stress the storage backend and surface resiliency concerns.
• Play a crucial role in product quality by overseeing end-to-end customer scenario validation work performed by team members.
• Streamline release qualification process and lead efforts to fully automate the release pipeline with a relentless focus on CI/CD.
• Take an active role and partner with peer teams and external partners to ensure new storage features meet target availability, security, and reliability goals, with an emphasis on quality upstream.
• Drive quality initiatives to streamline release quality gates and release pipeline.
• Support, mentor, and help engineers grow to build an inclusive team environment where everyone can deliver their best work.
• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.