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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

$161,600 - $314,400
Sep 4, 2025
Redmond, WA, USA
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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, and is looking to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
  • Experience operating or engineering MySQL internals, performance tuning, replication, or backup/restore in a cloud environment
  • Experience with control plane design patterns, service orchestration, and scaling stateful services in distributed systems
  • Experience delivering reliable, maintainable code in global-scale environments
  • Experience engineering and owning end-to-end technical decisions
  • Coding experience in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python

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

Other

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter