Microsoft · 23 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate and envision possibilities in a cloud-enabled world. They are seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to join the Azure PostgreSQL team, where the role involves driving innovations in relational database engines and contributing to open-source projects. The position emphasizes collaboration and the development of maintainable code in a diverse and inclusive work culture.
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Responsibilities
Oversees overall system architecture for a critically important and high-impact space such as a connection with deep technical domains or a broad set of products or services at critical junctures (e.g., early in development, urgent time horizon)
Creates a strategic roadmap for the system architecture by considering how related systems will evolve in the near future. Ensures architecture design is appropriately authored, documented, and reviewed
Establishes, influences, and ensures policies and procedures for developing extensible, reusable, and maintainable code, identifying and addressing coding issues, and conducting effective code reviews for a critically important and high-impact space such as those with deep technical domains connections or a broad set of products or services at critical junctures (e.g., early in development, urgent time horizon). Writes proof of concept code as needed and may develop code directly as needed
Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
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
4+ years of experience in developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system
2+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade
Experience with internals of PostgreSQL or similar Enterprise Database Management system, including Query processing, Storage Engine and High Availability
Experience building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees
Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers
Company
Microsoft
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