Principal Software Engineer

​Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s next generation globally distributed, elastic scale, multi-model cloud database service - designed to enable developers to build planet scale applications. Azure Cosmos DB allows you to elastically scale both throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions with tunable consistency while providing blazing fast read/write performance backed by enterprise grade SLAs.   
 
Cosmos DB Team is hiring Principal Software Engineer to be part of our journey who will be working in a diverse and geographically distributed team where collaboration and innovation are valued.  
 
This is a great opportunity to learn and work on the internals of enterprise class database engines, solve hard problems, and build a highly scalable and reliable data service.

Basic Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND significant years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C# or Python.
• Strong technical prowess, including understanding of algorithms, systems architecture, and end-user experience.    
• Background on end-to-end ownership of complex software systems. 
  

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience with existing open-source like PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB. 
• Technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
• Experience with life cycle of service development, deployment and operations.

• ​​We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer who will play a crucial role in driving the development and innovation on Azure Cosmos DB.  You will be at the forefront of shaping the future of distributed database solutions in the cloud.
• Design, implement and operate end-to-end product experiences.
• Lead the technical architecture, design & code reviews, and delivery of projects, interfacing with product management, design and other dependencies. 
  
• Collaborate with product managers to layout and manage the feature execution and rollout plan. 
  
• Responsible for the quality of the features that ship to customers and for the live site when they are in production. 
  
• Make technology and design decisions to deliver performance experiences. 
  
• Collaborate with your engineering peers to reuse code/stack components where applicable and feasible.
  
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in distributed databases, cloud technologies, and related fields to drive continuous improveme​nt.