Principal Software Engineer - Azure SQL Databases Team

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (software/electrical engineering)
• 8+ years of software design and development experiences
• 5+ years of experience in technical design, problem-solving, and debugging
• 5+ years of experience with architecting, developing, and maintaining large scale and data intensive systems
• Passion for growth, learning new technical domains, and growing technical and soft skills
• Experience in one or more programming languages, including, but not limited to: C/C++, Java, C#, Python, PowerShell, Rust
• Experience with planning, organizing, and executing on projects for software components and feature areas (work with a wider group of committers)
• Demonstrated passion for customer engagement and experience, with a data-driven approach
• Track record in driving project clarity and results through formal and non-formal leadership skills
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills (English speaking)

Nice to Haves:

• People management experience is not required but is considered a bonus
• Experience with data-intensive and large scale processing technologies and database systems is considered a bonus
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS/GCP) is considered a bonus

What You'll Be Doing:

• Drive and lead the software development projects from a technical perspective, timelines, delivery, priority
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems
• Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well-informed decisions towards business and engineering goals
• Design, produce, and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of a cloud service
• Contribute by fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties
• Collaborate with teams across the world to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services
• Proactively lead efforts for further improvements of the system, process, and owned product areas/components
• Mentor and guide the junior engineering colleagues

Perks and Benefits:

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to various characteristics
• Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work