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.   
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​​We think big. Today, our platform processes millions of events every second utilizing tens of thousands of virtual machines spread across dozens of data centers. As a Principal Software Engineer in the Messaging and Real-Time Analytics team you will help us achieve our mission of enabling no-code users to get intelligent insights and create automated processes to unlock the value hidden in data. Your focus will be mostly around services security and enterprise grade features. 
 
We value people, learning, and doing the right thing. We cultivate a high-trust environment with great collaboration and fun. We want people who help shape our vision, help others succeed, and learn constantly. We try new ideas and fail-fast. We use the minimal process needed to deliver great results as a team. We love delighting our customers and aim to deliver an exceptional platform and user experience. 
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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. 

• ​​Drive key architecture decisions and overall direction of the product in the fundamentals and security areas
• Adjust our services and processes to obey the latest and greatest security and privacy standards
• Building core infrastructure, backend services, and cross cutting features for the product
• Hands-on technical leadership, setting the engineering direction with sound design practices
• Collaborate closely with teams across Microsoft to leverage the best technology, architecture, and ideas to advance the team’s mission
• Be an example of great and clean coding, design and overall engineering skills to inspire and educate other team members.​​ 

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