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 Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

Azure Cosmos DB is one of the fastest growing Azure services that provides globally distributed, low-latency, massively scalable, multi-model cloud database service. It is designed to enable developers to build planet-scale applications.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join the Azure Cosmos DB team, where you will be working on a large-scale, distributed, transactional and analytical database. This role is on the team that works on Storage (Row Store, Column Store, Log Structured Store, Tiered Storage), Inverted Indexes, Database Engines like BwTree, and other LSM technologies. In this role, you will work on core engine and distributed systems problems that power the planet scale database.

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.

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. 

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the next phase of storage engine and indexing features of Cosmos DB to help propel the next wave of fundamental capabilities for Cosmos DB.
• Develop a technical direction for features which may also require driving cross-cutting initiatives across multiple layers of the Cosmos DB technology stack.
• Stay updated on recent trends on the database world with a focus on the storage and indexing space, and be open to experimenting with promising trends on the storage and indexing area that might open up new avenues of growth for Cosmos DB.
• Provide guidance and mentor engineers, enabling them to succeed in the team and the space.
• Conduct code reviews and help shape and steer the team coding guidelines.
  

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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.
    

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/Additional Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience shipping high-performance C++ or C#/Java code server software.
• 2+ years of experience with backend, storage or database development in distributed systems environment.