Principal Software Engineer

Overview

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 data integration team builds data gravity on the Microsoft Cloud. Massive volumes of data are generated – not just from transactional systems of record, but also from the world around us.  Our data integration products – Azure Data Factory and Power Query make it easy for customers to bring in, clean, shape, and join data, to extract intelligence.

The Fabric Data Movement team is currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their team. This team is in charge of designing, building, and operating a next generation service that transfers large volumes of data from various source systems to target systems with minimal latency while providing a data centric orchestration platform. The team focuses on advanced data movement/replication scenarios while maintaining user-friendly interfaces. Working collaboratively, the team utilizes a range of technologies to deliver high-quality products at a fast pace.

Responsibilities

Code Quality & Best Practices

• Leads by example in writing extensible, maintainable code
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code for performance and ROI
• Applies metrics and coding standards to ensure stability and quality
  
  

Debugging & Issue Resolution

• Uses logs, telemetry, and tools for proactive and reactive debugging
• Conducts root cause analysis and retrospective reviews
  
  

Code Reviews

• Ensures code meets Microsoft and team standards
• Reviews for diagnosability, reliability, maintainability
• Provides feedback and enforces best practices
  
  

Architecture & Design

• Leads architecture discussions and creates design proposals
• Develops design documents and validates security/compliance
• Owns some design decisions and shares learnings with the team
  
  

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Defines clear testing plans and success criteria
• Improves test coverage, adds automation, and removes outdated tests
• Drives continuous integration of testing features
  
  

Dependency Management

• Identifies and manages cross-team dependencies
• Ensures security, performance, and reliability across systems
• Coordinates with other teams to resolve conflicts and optimize chains
  
  

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Works with PMs and leads to gather user requirements
• Incorporates feedback loops for customer value and usage insights
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• Experience in data integration or migrations or ELT or ETL tooling is mandatory
• 10+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization
• Solid software design and architecture skills for features and components spanning both horizontally and vertically
  
  

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in building cloud services with multi-tier architecture
• Experience working in Data domain, dealing with high volumes of data, API traffic, with mindset of security, scalability and performance
  
  

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.
  

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers).

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