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 Microsoft Fabric, the Data Analytics team delivers the core analytics experiences that allow customers to turn data into insight and action. Spanning data engineering, data warehousing, data science, and AI, this team enables end-to-end scenarios on a single, unified platform. By bringing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data together, the team is advancing our mission to provide a seamless analytics experience that drives real business impact at enterprise scale.​   ​ ​The Azure Data Engineering Infrastructure team is hiring for Principal Software Engineer to technically lead the infrastructure services that powers critical Azure Data products. In this role, the right candidate would be accountable for the end-end-end feature delivery, reliability, compliance, customer support of owned services and deliver success leading a team of engineers.   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 ​ ​​​Adopt AI-first development practices for creating, implementing, optimizing, debugging, refactoring, and reusing code to establish and enhance features, performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).      Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for product scenarios.     Drive end-to-end across multiple teams starting from identification of, documentation of design to completion of development of a feature, product, application, service, or platform.     Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., product managers) in driving workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.     Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers in developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.     Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.​ ​   Embody our culture and values   Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications  ​ ​​​Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline.   12+ years of software engineering and product development experience in industry   12+ years of proven track record of shipping end-user software services or products    10+ years of in-depth object-oriented programming experience in (not limited to) Java/C++/C#    Equal ability in reading and enhancing existing code as well as writing entirely new code from scratch. ​ ​   Job Requirements: Other & Additional   Ability to meet Microsoft,