Principal Software Engineer

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 to build 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 control plane behind Azure Database for MySQL powers a fully managed service running at global scale. We’re writing the software that makes MySQL in Azure fast, reliable, and seamless for customers worldwide. We're looking for a Principal Engineer who thrives in ambiguity, writes clean code under pressure, and makes pragmatic, high-impact decisions. You’ll own problems end to end to make the service more self-healing, debuggable, and secure. If you’re a generalist who likes going deep across systems and has a bias for action, come work with us.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core components of the control plane for Azure Database for MySQL
• Lead end-to-end development of features that improve availability, performance, and operational simplicity
• Debug and resolve complex issues across distributed systems, networking, storage, and compute layers
• Continuously improve service reliability, observability, and debuggability through thoughtful engineering
• Mentor teammates and contribute to a culture of ownership, urgency, and pragmatic problem-solving .
  
  

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.
• Proven ability to lead technical decisions independently and deliver reliable, maintainable code in high-stakes environments.
• Demonstrated track record of high-output, hands-on engineering with a bias for action and ownership of end-to-end technical decisions.
  

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Experience operating or engineering MySQL internals, performance tuning, replication, or backup/restore in a cloud environment.
• Familiarity with control plane design patterns, service orchestration, and scaling stateful services in distributed systems.
  
  

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