Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 May 25, 2025 | |
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OverviewOverview: 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 tobuild 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. Microsoft Azure SQL DB is a leader in managed relational database business and we are growing rapidly. We are operating hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide with millions of databases in over 40 regions. In the past few years Azure SQL DB brought revolutionary capabilities to the market that span database insights, auditing, performance optimization, encryption, accidental and disaster recovery, regional fault tolerance as well as a spectrum of features that deeper integrate with Azure platform providing truly end-to-end solutions. Our team pushes the limits of technology to exceed requirements of the most demanding data applications in the industry. Large enterprises and SaaS providers are migrating to Microsoft Azure bringing large volume of data and manageability requirements. Azure SQL DB Control Plane is processing billions of REST API calls every month with predictable SLA and 100% consistency, tolerating underlying system failures, software and hardware upgrades and reconfiguration. It orchestrates complex workflows spanning multiple services in Azure and within Azure SQL DB clusters. Customers expect 100% availability and instant elasticity of databases that scale up and down with demand regardless of their size. Azure SQL DB Control Plane has a bold and ambitious vision. We are looking for a passionate, motivated and experienced engineer with strong design skills to join the team. You will have an opportunity to shape and build the next generation of Control Plane platform designed for 100x customer and request volume growth, create new technology that enables placement and optimal capacity utilization within a cluster and a region, design and implement solution for management at massive scale for large customers, mine insights from telemetry and behavior of large distributed systems, learn and contribute to design of service software stack, datacenter design and network topology. 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.
ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities Design, implement, test and operate services and components Build and maintain partnership between our team and teams operating services upstream and downstream Establish customer connections and build insights into their business to feed back into design Mentor and grow junior members of the team Partner with Program Management, architects and leaders to define requirements, scope projects and validate solutions Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability and compliance requirements Research and adopt new technology to improve quality of the service, increase customer value or reduce operating cost Participate in on-call rotation for the team Embody our culture and values | |