Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics with products such as 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. The Fabric Mirroring team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate a next-generation service that transfers large volumes of data from various source systems to Fabric with minimal latency, focusing on advanced data movement and replication scenarios.

Responsibilities

Lead by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code; Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and ROI; Apply debugging tools and examine logs and telemetry to verify assumptions and identify root causes; Review code to ensure it meets team and Microsoft quality standards; Lead architecture discussions and create architecture proposals; Develop design documents and determine technologies and interactions; Create test plans and drive test coverage and automation; Identify dependencies and coordinate with other teams; Collaborate with stakeholders to align on user requirements and incorporate customer feedback

Requirements

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; Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements; Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

10+ years of software engineering experience; Proven track record of delivering large-scale services or products; Experience leading complex cross-team initiatives; Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud computing, system architecture, performance and scalability, security and reliability engineering; Proficiency in C#, Java, C++, Python, Go, and Azure technologies; Strategic thinking; Technical influence without direct authority; Executive-level communication; Strong stakeholder management; Organizational problem solving