Principal Software Engineer

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• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform
• Leads identification of other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's own system may provide support to others
• Leads efforts to determine back-end dependencies associated with product, application, service, or platform functionality for the solution/product
• Demonstrates deep understanding of up and downstream effects of solutions and work provided to ensure appropriate security and performance
• Identifies areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members and drives coordination
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
• Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy
• Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices
• Considers and leads the comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment across products
• Runs code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime across products
• Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
• Breaks down long-term project vision into milestones as part of an overall roadmap
• Guides other members for project estimation and escalates any issue that would cause a major delay
• Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area
• Applies feedback to current and future iterations
• Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed
• Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered
• Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 2+ years of experience in development of database internals OR contributions to open-source table and file formats, query engines or related libraries (e.g., Iceberg, Spark, Polars)

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• ProfitSharing contribution
• Competitive health insurance

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.