Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Sep 26, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you interested in shaping the future of cloud storage services as a Senior Software Engineer? Join the Azure Storage team, where we are advancing planet-scale cloud storage solutions. This team plays a key role in hosting data for some of the world's largest organizations and supports Microsoft's core online services such as Microsoft Office, OneDrive, Xbox, Microsoft Teams, and Bing.As a Senior Software Engineer - Azure Storage, you will help scale infrastructure to manage exabytes of customer data. The work spans a wide range of challenges, from high-frequency access to long-term archival storage. You will contribute to the development of innovative cloud storage technologies while maintaining performance and reliability across diverse workloads.In this role, you will design, debug, and deploy new features that enhance the Azure Storage service. You will collaborate with engineers across the globe to address challenges of scale and service quality. This includes leading efforts to automate operations, improve performance, and reduce costs. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for scenarios and translate them into scalable design solutions.Drive the identification of dependencies and contribute to the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverage your subject-matter expertise to partner with project managers and guide your workgroup's project plans, release schedules, and work items.Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitor systems for degradation or downtime, alert stakeholders, and initiate recovery actions for both simple and complex issues.Guide other engineers by developing and following operational playbooks and participating in on-call rotations.Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to emerging trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance at scale. | |