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 messaging and real-time analytics team provides comprehensive solutions and a robust platform that enables users to ingest high granularity signals (real-time & observability) and complex data, converting those into a competitive advantage in real-time for both end users and modern applications.  ​ 

​​Are you ready to work on the next generation local storage micro-service that powers Azure Event Hubs (http://aka.ms/eventhubs), Azure Service Bus messaging (http://aka.ms/servicebus), Azure Event Grid (http://aka.ms/azureventgrid) and more?  
Are you excited to build a service that is lean and mean, where throughput and latency matter the most, while keeping the highest bar of quality?  
 
If you value unit tests, TDD, refactoring, simple and efficient designs, ensuring quality by using all available tools and a team that is egoless, then you are the Principal Software Engineer the Messaging team is looking for!  
 
We in  Azure Messaging specialize in building services that send and receive trillions of sub-1MB data payloads a day, with a delicate balance of blazing speed and reliability. Our Ring 0 services in Azure (Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service Bus and Relay) form part of the backbone of a vast array of services within the Azure ecosystem, other products at Microsoft (including Office and Xbox) and the large subset of Azure customers that need to output or ingest data at scale.  

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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 

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Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.

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 

• 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 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 equivalent experience.
• ​​Preferred demonstrated experience with distributed system and/or handling customer growth
• Solid inclination for architecting at scale. Fluent in multi-threaded and Asynchronous programming ​ 

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 a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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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• ​​Build real-time data ingestion services which support millions of messages being processed per second with 99.99% service availability.
• Build highly reliable distributed storage systems which support low latency/high throughput for ingestion relying on cutting edge technologies like Azure Service Fabric. 
• Supports SAAS applications like Office 365, HALO, App Insights, Xbox Live and many more
• Support hundreds of thousands of Azure applications where the messaging services are the backbone for core features like: Triggering of event notifications, asynchronous, reliable communication, telemetry and diagnostics.
• Integrate with ecosystems such as: IoT applications, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Functions and Logic Apps.
• Deliver Azure Messaging services to Public Cloud, Azure Stack as well as Hybrid environments. ​ 

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