Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is a technology company whose Azure Data engineering team builds data platforms, databases, analytics, and AI-enabled services. The Principal Software Development Engineer will drive innovations for the Azure PostgreSQL team, focusing on relational database engine areas such as query processing, transaction logging and recovery, versioning, I/O subsystems, scale-out, and distributed systems. The role also contributes to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux, develops extensions, oversees system architecture, establishes coding practices, and supports live services.

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
• Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

• • 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
• • 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