New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 25, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft 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. The SQL team is hiring a principal engineer to help us innovate and build new features in backup/restore and replication area. 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.
ResponsibilitiesSupport, mentor, and help engineers grow building an inclusive team environment where everyone can deliver their best work Lead the design and implementation of core capabilities in the backup/restore and replicarion areas that are scalable, highly-available, compliant, and deployed globally Advocate for and maintain a culture of high-quality software development with focus on efficientDevOps, customer support processes and automation Analyze telemetry and usage data to inform product decisions and troubleshoot issues Work with diverse opinions and negotiate solutions balancing customer requirements and business Embody our culture and values | |