Microsoft · 5 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer - SQL
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. They are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead and develop features related to scale and resiliency for the Fabric Platform, as well as create high-level designs and analyze data for solutions related to incidents and reliability.
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Responsibilities
Tech lead and develop features related to scale and resiliency for Fabric Platform
Create high level design and architecture for some of the features within Fabric Platform
Analyze data and come up with solutions related to incidents and scale/reliability
Embody our culture and values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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
10+ years of coding as a developer on backend of a product
10+ years as developer of cloud services
5+ years experience with debugging and developing high scale high throughput cloud services
5+ years experience with architecture and high level design of high scale cloud services
Experience with solving latency and performance issues
Experience with Azure infrastructure is a plus
Experience with Azure SQL and CosmosDB
Experience with using AI during development
Company
Microsoft
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