New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 31, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft 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 tobuild 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. We are hiring a Principal Software Development Engineer to join the Azure PostgreSQL team, where you will work on one or more areas of a large-scale cloud database service such as continuous availability, transaction logging and recovery, clustering, scalable storage systems, read and write performance. You will have the opportunity to to tune Linux environments for improving database performance, reducing resource consumption (memory/cpu) and optimizing I/O stack in cloud environments. Additional opportunities to contribute to opensource projects such as Kernel, systemd and PostgreSQL The group fosters a diverse and inclusive work culture that prioritizes people at all times. We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers. We develop, test, and check code in every day. 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. 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.
ResponsibilitiesOversees overall system architecture for critically important and high-impact database, data plane, and control plane services, with deep technical depth within specific domains or a broad set of services at critical lifecycle stages (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 Writes proof of concept code as needed and may develop code directly as needed, including leveraging industry standard and cutting edge Linux and other open-source software Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Embody our culture and values | |