Principal Software Engineer - Fabric Graph

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 in 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, our Graph team is dedicated to simplifying the process of extracting insights from the vast scale of interconnected business data prevalent in every organization. We are driven by our goal to enable all users to visualize, analyze, and enrich the intricate relationships within their business data. We are currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer who can define and implement our vision of scale-out graph indices, and graph algorithms systems, enabling large-scale graph analytics data analysts, business users, and data scientists across all organizations. 

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
• Extensive years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C++, Java, or Python.
• Relevant years of experience in development and operation of distributed systems as an Individual Contributor or Manager.
• Demonstrated experience in Graph high-performance compute, low-latency serving or algorithm development.

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

• Preferred demonstrated experience of graph database query languages, e.g. OpenCypher, Datalog.
• Preferred knowledge of query planning and execution in graph or non-relational DBMS.​ 

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• You will lead the development of the core database index, query planning and execution, and language development stack.
• You will design, implement, and lead modularization, optimization, testing, repairability and observability of the core system components.
• You will design and participate in the implementation of appropriate observability metrics and analyse these metrics to improve the quality of decisions.
  You will input to collecting, classifying, and analyzing complex data.
• You will steer the team to drive multiple group project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• As a Principal Engineer, you will help the graph core database engineering team grow. ​
• You will embody our and .