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Microsoft · 8 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer - SQL

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $275K/yr

6+ years exp

Microsoft 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 tech lead and develop features related to scale and resiliency for the Fabric Platform, while also creating high-level designs and analyzing data for solutions related to incidents and reliability.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

CC++C#JavaPythonCloud servicesHigh scale servicesArchitecture designAzure SQLCosmosDBDebuggingAI developmentPerformance optimization

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

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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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$1M

Key Investors

Technology Venture Investors

2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity

1986-03-13IPO

1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO

Vukani Mngxati

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