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 of 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 includes 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 a data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications, and driving a data culture.   

Within Azure Data, the Data Analytics group develops the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Warehouse components of Microsoft Fabric, supporting data professionals in analyzing all types of data. Our team operates with a startup mindset—fast, customer-driven, and focused on excellence—and supports critical workloads with secure, scalable, cloud-native architecture. As we grow, we continue to attract top talent to advance global analytics and AI platforms.

You will be an important part of a team of highly motivated and talented individuals, and this is a great opportunity to challenge yourself, grow your career, and be part of the fastest growing field in computer science and beyond.   

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

• Coding-Leads by example and mentors teams to write high-quality, secure, and maintainable code across products, following best practices and improving performance, testability, and cost. Identifies and applies coding patterns, drives code reviews, resolves blockers, and proactively addresses issues with debugging, telemetry, and incident retrospectives. Ensures code meets team standards, test coverage, and security requirements, leveraging automated tools and providing actionable feedback.
• Design-Owns architecture and design discussions for complex products, evaluates and recommends design options, and documents solutions. Mentors others in developing test strategies, integrating security testing, and improving test coverage and reliability. Coordinates dependencies with other teams, ensuring compliance, performance, and reliability.
• Engineering Excellence-Promotes secure coding and design best practices, scales solutions to customer needs, and stays current with industry trends. Leads tool development and adoption, shares knowledge, and ensures compliance with security, privacy, and regulations. Establishes and enforces security standards, monitoring, and incident response processes.
• Implement-Leads experimentation and deployment efforts, collaborating with stakeholders to plan and execute releases. Ensures deployments are safe, efficient, and meet security and compliance requirements, with rollback plans and disaster recovery mechanisms in place.
• Reliability and Supportability-Designs and reviews telemetry and monitoring for system health, leads incident response as a designated responsible individual, and maintains live site operations. Improves troubleshooting resources, reduces incident frequency, and ensures secure, reliable operations.
• Understand User Requirements-Partners with stakeholders to define and validate user requirements, incorporates feedback, and advocates for customer security and privacy needs. Leads the integration of metrics and feedback loops to improve product value.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum qualifications

• 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.

Additional or preferred 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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.