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 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 seeking a highly motivated and dynamic Principal Software Engineer with strong background in systems design/databases to work in Azure CosmosDB for MongoDB / Azure CosmosDB for PostgreSQL team. As seasoned engineer, you will partner/collaborate with engineers and leaders, helping team deliver features spanning the query engine, index structures, high availability and storage layouts. We’re looking for someone who has demonstrated history of solving hard technical problems, architected backend systems and is motivated to take initiative and help the team deliver fast for the entire product lifecycle.

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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. 

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders for understanding of requirements and turn them into architectural and design plans with implementation roadmap.
• Architect, develop, and sustain large scale distributed platform services.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: software design and development, coding, debugging complex issues, prototyping new features and reviewing code for quality.  
• Keep a focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be super customer focused.
• Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables.
• Mentor junior engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
• Embody our and