Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
relocation assistance
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 May 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft 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 Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. Fabric Security and Fundamental for Enterprise team is providing the platform that allow workloads to manage authentication, authorization, metadata management, network security, CMK and infrastructure for the deployment. We rely on different Azure technologies like Service Fabric, SQL Azure, REDIS cache, Service Bus, APIM, Blob storage, Kusto, Containers etc. We are building a world class service that combines mission critical data and real-time data. This combination makes this area possibly the most cutting edge across the entire industry! 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.We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. "Relocation assistance is not provided for this role." Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities* Develop highly-efficient code that scales to millions of active users at minimal operational costs.* A hands-on technical leader who sets the engineering direction with sound design practices and guides the team with best practices in software design* Establish (Key Performance Indicators) KPIs and successfully drive execution through collaboration and partnership with PM team and partners.* Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.* Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of various capabilities with focus on quality, scale and sustainable development practices.* Embody our culture and values | |