FULL_TIME
10+
Principal Software Engineer - Azure SQL Databases Team
11/21/2025
Drive and lead software development projects, influencing design and architecture. Collaborate with global teams to enhance the reliability and performance of cloud services.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
Drive and lead the software development projects from 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 On-call duties and support include (live-site outage prevention and mitigations, root-cause analysis, enhancing operational readiness, dev-ops work, product repair work). 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. 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 project for software components and feature areas (work with wider group of committers). Demonstrated passion for customer engagement and experience, with data driven approach. Track record in driving project clarity and results through formal and non-formal leadership skills. Excellent communication and cross team collaboration skill (English speaking). 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
Key Skills
Software DevelopmentTechnical DesignProblem SolvingDebuggingArchitectingData Intensive SystemsCloud TechnologiesC/C++JavaC#PythonPowerShellRustProject ManagementCustomer EngagementCommunicationCollaboration
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineering
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