​​Principal Software Engineer​

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 
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 Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.​ 

​​The Data Modernization team within Azure Data is hiring a Principal Software Engineer. Database migration is an area that is top of mind for the Azure organization as a whole.  and is visible, crucial, and fast-moving area of investment for the team. These set of services are the newest addition of services being built by the team and are driven by the all-important momentum of migrating and modernizing customer workloads from on-premises to Azure. These are high scale hybrid services, and their goal is to help customers migrate their workloads from wherever they are to Azure and modernize on the way. 

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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. 

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience in architecting, designing, building and running cloud service at large scale in C#, C++ or Java. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 
• Experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, database products.
• Develop highly scalable and performant services.
• Strong coding, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in technical leadership in driving engineering roadmaps, leading v-teams, mentoring and helping others grow technically.
• Excellent communication skill and executive presence

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. 

Preferred/Additional Qualifications 

​​Preferred demonstrated experience with data migrations, SQL and Oracle technologies.​ 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers). 

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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• Shapes the architecture and design of the products/services we own, ensuring a well-thought-through technical foundation – considering scale, performance, and reusability.
• Connects technical roadmaps to measurable outcomes through deep understanding of business and technical goals.
• Writes clean, modular, and high-quality code with an emphasis on performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills with the aim to become point-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequent releases.
• Takes end-to-end ownership through the software lifecycle with a strong focus on solution, code quality, and efficiency.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis, with emphasis on timely response, delivery & satisfaction for stakeholders.
• Identifies and address inefficiencies and gaps in architecture, testing, execution etc., and drive process improvements to elevate development practices and standards.
• Provides technical guidance to the team, mentoring and supporting team members in their professional growth.
• Collaborates with engineers, product managers, designers, and partner teams to identify opportunities, and building consensus to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.
• Drives technical expertise by optimizing code/application for the best performance and advocating for state-of-the-art technologies and Engineering excellence culture.
• Actively participates in wider engineering group- and site-wide activities.
• Works in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth. 
  

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