Principal Software Engineer
Job Description
- Experience with MongoDB
- Experience with large-scale cloud systems
- MIS or related certifications
- Design & implement CosmosDB MongoDB API gateway
- Collaborate with partner teams
- Build highly performant & scalable service
- Improve service telemetry
- 6+ years experience, 2+ years Rust
- Industry-leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Networking opportunities
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. 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.
One of the unique features of Azure Cosmos DB is its multi-model APIs which allows users to develop new/migrate existing applications using popular open-source (OSS) APIs such as MongoDB, giving it a unique edge. As one of the fastest-growing Azure services, Cosmos DB Mongo API team is looking for a passionate and technically strong engineer to help design, implement and deliver for our next generation single tenant vCore MongoDB Gateway.
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 discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of RUST programming 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
Bachelor'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 Master'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.
- Experience with life cycle of service development, deployment and servicing.
- Experience with existing open-source api stack like MongoDB is a huge plus.
- 5+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
- Management Information Systems (MIS), or other industry or product specific Engineering Certifications.
- 6+ years of RUST programming expertise in scalability improvements.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $135,800 - CAD $253,000 per year.
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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 01, 2025.
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Responsibilities
As a Principal Software Engineer on the team, responsibilities include:
- Design and implement end-to-end CosmosDB MongoDB API gateway service
- Collaborate with partner teams and management both upstream and downstream dependencies
- Assume ownership in building highly performant and scalable gateway service
- Proactively improve service telemetry revealing gaps in all areas ranging from availability to serviceability
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