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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.
Within Microsoft Fabric, the Data Analytics team delivers the core analytics experiences that allow customers to turn data into insight and action. Spanning data engineering, data warehousing, data science, and AI, this team enables end-to-end scenarios on a single, unified platform. By bringing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data together, the team is advancing our mission to provide a seamless analytics experience that drives real business impact at enterprise scale.
The Azure Data Engineering Infrastructure team is hiring for Principal Software Engineer to technically lead the infrastructure services that powers critical Azure Data products. In this role, the right candidate would be accountable for the end-end-end feature delivery, reliability, compliance, customer support of owned services and deliver success leading a team of engineers.
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Responsibilities
Adopt AI-first development practices for creating, implementing, optimizing, debugging, refactoring, and reusing code to establish and enhance features, performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for product scenarios.
Drive end-to-end across multiple teams starting from identification of, documentation of design to completion of development of a feature, product, application, service, or platform.
Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., product managers) in driving workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers in 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 seek new knowledge and adapt 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.
Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline.
12+ years of software engineering and product development experience in industry
12+ years of proven track record of shipping end-user software services or products
10+ years of in-depth object-oriented programming experience in (not limited to) Java/C++/C#
Equal ability in reading and enhancing existing code as well as writing entirely new code from scratch.
Job Requirements: Other & Additional
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/Additional Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline.
Experience with open-source software components.
Experience working on continuous integration and flighting services toolset.
Great curiosity and willingness to question.
High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment.
Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find winning solutions and celebrate successes.
Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems.
Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner.
Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes.
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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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related technical discipline.
- 12+ years of software engineering and product development experience in industry.
- 12+ years proven track record of shipping end-user software services or products.
- 10+ years of in-depth object-oriented programming experience in Java, C++, or C#.
- Ability to read and enhance existing code as well as write new code from scratch.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background check and related security screening requirements.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related technical discipline.
- Experience with open-source software components.
- Experience working on continuous integration and flighting services toolset (CI/CD).
- Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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