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Principal Software Development Engineer

2 Months ago • 8-12 Years • DevOps • $161,600 PA - $314,400 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

This Principal Software Development Engineer role within Microsoft's Azure PostgreSQL team focuses on developing and maintaining large-scale cloud database services. Responsibilities include working on continuous availability, transaction logging, clustering, scalable storage, and performance optimization. The role involves contributing to open-source PostgreSQL and developing extensions like vector database extensions for AI. The engineer will oversee system architecture, create strategic roadmaps, establish coding policies, and maintain live service operations on a rotational basis. This position requires extensive experience in developing and shipping system-level features in enterprise production backend server systems and building distributed cloud services.
Must have:
  • 8+ years experience in backend system development
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or similar DBMS
  • Distributed system building experience
  • Understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • System architecture oversight
  • Code review and policy establishment
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science
  • Experience with vector database extensions
  • Experience building and supporting distributed cloud services
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

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 databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings. 

 

We are hiring a Principal Software Development Engineer to join the Azure PostgreSQL team, where you will work on one or more areas of a large-scale cloud database service such as continuous availability, transaction logging and recovery, clustering, scalable storage systems, read and write performance. You will have the opportunity to contribute to open-source PostgreSQL, and\or develop extensions such as vector database extensions for AI. 
 
The group fosters a diverse and inclusive work culture that prioritizes people at all times. We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers. We develop, test, and check code in every day. 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 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. 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.

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 

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ 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. 
  • 8+ years of experience in developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system.
  • 4+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade.
  • Experience with internals of PostgreSQL or similar Enterprise Database Management system, including Storage Engine and High Availability.
  • Experience building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees.  
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.  
  • Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
  • Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes. 

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:


Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 7, 2024.

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • Oversees overall system architecture for a critically important and high-impact space such as a connection with deep technical domains or a broad set of products or services at critical junctures (e.g., early in development, urgent time horizon).

  • Creates a strategic roadmap for the system architecture by considering how related systems will evolve in the near future. Ensures architecture design is appropriately authored, documented, and reviewed.

  • Establishes, influences, and ensures policies and procedures for developing extensible, reusable, and maintainable code, identifying and addressing coding issues, and conducting effective code reviews for a critically important and high-impact space such as those with deep technical domains connections or a broad set of products or services at critical junctures (e.g., early in development, urgent time horizon). Writes proof of concept code as needed and may develop code directly as needed.

  • Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.  

Embody our and  

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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