​​Principal Software Engineer​

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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.​

​​The control plane behind Azure Database for MySQL powers a fully managed service running at global scale. We’re writing the software that makes MySQL in Azure fast, reliable, and seamless for customers worldwide.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team.

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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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor'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.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.

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

• Experience operating or engineering MySQL internals, performance tuning, replication, or backup/restore in a cloud environment.
• Experience with control plane design patterns, service orchestration, and scaling stateful services in distributed systems.
• Experience delivering reliable, maintainable code in global-scale environments.
• Experience engineering and owning end-to-end technical decisions.

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 6, 2025.

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• ​​Design, build, and maintain core components of the control plane for Azure Database for MySQL
• Lead end-to-end development of features that improve availability, performance, and operational simplicity
• Debug and resolve complex issues across distributed systems, networking, storage, and compute layers
• Continuously improve service reliability, observability, and debuggability through thoughtful engineering ​

Embody our culture and values