principal Software engineer

Overview

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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.

Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric. The Fabric Data Engineering Experience & Infrastructure team is hiring a backend Engineer to help build infrastructure for Fabric Data Engineering, based on Apache Spark. You will help implement highly scalabe and reliable distributed systems with advanced capabilities designed to help Data Engineers achieve more through Microsoft Fabric.

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

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 deveopment 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 workgroups 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

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.
  
  

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.

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).

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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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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