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.​

​​​​Microsoft Azure SQL DB is a leader in managed relational database business and we are growing rapidly. The Azure SQL Database service has millions of databases under its management. With this unprecedented growth comes exciting technical challenges at scales previously unimaginable. Large enterprises and SaaS providers are migrating to Microsoft Azure bringing large volume of data and manageability requirements. Azure SQL DB Control Plane is processing tens of billions of REST API calls every month with predictable SLA and 100% consistency, tolerating underlying system failures, software and hardware upgrades and reconfiguration. It orchestrates complex workflows spanning multiple services in Azure and within Azure SQL DB clusters. Customers expect 100% availability and instant elasticity of databases that scale up and down with demand regardless of their size.   
 
Azure SQL DB Control Plane has bold vision. We are looking for a passionate, motivated and experienced Principal Software Engineer with design and leadership skills to join the team. You will have an opportunity to shape and build the next generation of Control Plane platform designed for 100x customer and request volume growth, create new technology that enables placement and optimal capacity utilization within a cluster and a region, design and implement solution for management at massive scale for large customers, mine insights from telemetry and behavior of large distributed systems, learn and contribute to design of service software stack, datacenter design and network topology. Working with a team in a distributed system, your work will influence the technical direction of the Azure SQL DB service architecture and shape the platform across the entire Azure Cloud ecosystem.    
 

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