Principal Software Engineer

Be a part of the Data Services team, building the Data platform, to enable analytics of Microsoft’s diverse range of service lines from Xbox to Volume licensing, Professional Services to Suppliers, and compliance to financial reports. We believe in the simplification of data access and speed at which it can be delivered to make a difference through insights and innovation, to informed decisioning within Microsoft, product team investments and ultimately create clarity by fostering a data driven mentality across our organizations and Microsoft.

The Data Services team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to build solutions leveraging SAP data access layers and Azure technologies to orchestrate and compliantly reason over petabytes of Microsoft finance data. You will design, develop, test, and operate the platforms with a config driven approach, promoting self-serve onboarding and data transformation support. You will design and implement how we leverage Azure Data Factory to hydrate data from our ERP systems and support financial activities ensuring compliance. You will explore ways to efficiently store data leveraging formats such as parquet, delta tables and ensure compliance. Additionally, you will investigate serving the data at scale with near real-time latencies to Microsoft customers.

You will make a difference by gaining perspective from working across Microsoft’s Product service lines, grow and learn by gaining deep and broad understanding of Azure Services. In addition, you will enable data streaming methodologies for segments of this data where near real time decisioning is important. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

By applying to this U.S. based position, relocation does not apply/is not provided for the role.

Responsibilities

• Bring your experience to a vibrant team through design reviews, code reviews and mentoring while helping the team build an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best.
• Architect, build and operate elements of the ERP data services.
• Independently drive design discussions, data modelling, constructively incorporate feedback, and implement and test your features.
• Work closely with your peers in rationalizing technology choices, data models, design, and implementations to expose and reason over Finance data.
• Deeply leverage ERP and Azure Data Services to orchestrate, store and perform data in a reliable, repeatable, and timely pattern.
• Support hiring, mentorship, and guidance of peer Software Engineers.

Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

Other Requirements:

• 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 Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with Azure Spark, Scala and/or C# is highly preferred