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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

The Azure Data Platform is possibly one of the most exciting Microsoft Orgs today, frequently in the news, growing its user base very rapidly, and making waves across the industry with multiple products. The Fabric Central Engineering Systems Team works to enable smooth and painless development throughout different product environments, highly reliable self-service tooling, and development accelerating solutions that help our engineers and customers deliver on scalable, data driven products and features that are core for Azure data. 

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.   We rely on numerous Azure technologies like ADO, Service Fabric, SQL Azure, REDIS cache, Service Bus, API Management, blob storage, Document DB, Azure Data Lake, Kusto, containers, etc.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• Design high quality components using clean and tested code.  
• Integrate Azure technologies to achieve high scale and reliability.  
• Lead architecture, design, and develop features and solutions with high quality. 
• Design, implement, and refine chosen solutions in close partnership with Product Management and partner teams.
• Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.  
• Provide technical leadership across features, projects, service fundamentals, and tools.
• Mentor new and junior engineers to bring them up to speed in software development environment.
• Provide support to online services by investigating and mitigating issues.
  
  

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
  
  

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Familiarity with Microsoft’s ADO Environment. Build and .NET language architecture.
• Experience developing with Azure or other cloud services.
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills.
• 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.
• A passion for improving engineering practices and producing high quality software.
• Solid CS fundamentals and strong inclination for architecting at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to lead v-teams in development of cross-platform features.
  
  

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.
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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.