Senior Software Engineer

Share job

We are a fast-paced agile team in a start-up like culture where you are empowered to help shape the future. Our “no dead-ends”, “whatever it takes”, “biased for action”, “make it better than ever” philosophy ensures that every customer can realize their full potential through the Microsoft Cloud. We are fast growing team, but we make sure we are committed to remain agile. Customer first, nurturing trust, high responsiveness, automation, service level objectives (SLO), service level indicators (SLI), service level agreement (SLA), blameless post-mortem, observability, monitoring, alerting, and toil reduction form the foundations of our code and we work with teams across Microsoft and external customers to ensure success. We work on exciting engineering challenges in a fun and supporting environment, with access to cutting edge technology surrounded by world-class engineers.

Microsoft Azure is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Azure Core Specialized organization, where you’ll help design and build the next generation of Supercomputing storage and archival solutions. This is a rare opportunity to work on massively distributed systems that scale from hundreds of petabytes to exabyte-scale, supporting mission-critical workloads for some of Microsoft’s largest customers in the UK and globally.

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 field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Experience in the operation and management of a production service.

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.
  • The successful candidate must have or be able to obtain the Security Check (SC) clearance as issued by the United Kingdom Security Vetting Unit (UKSV).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive professional experience in C#.
• Experience providing technical leadership on a software engineering team.
• Experience in solving complex technical challenges at hyperscale.
• Experience with cloud scale storage solutions.
• A collaborative mindset and a drive to innovate in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

#azurecorejobs

• Build and optimize high-performance, large-scale storage systems that power Azure’s supercomputing and AI infrastructure.
• Design and implement resilient, distributed architectures capable of handling extreme data volumes with low latency and high durability.
• Collaborate with teams across compute, networking, and hardware to deliver end-to-end solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.
• Mentor and coach early in career engineers in the team.
• Provide technical leadership.
• Leverage cutting-edge technologies in storage, data movement, and cloud-native infrastructure to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Contribute to the evolution of Azure’s storage platform to meet the demands of exabyte-scale systems.