Principal Software Engineer - Azure SQL Databases Team

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We are Azure Data, a Microsoft team that drives the future of data processing in the Microsoft Cloud. Our software development team, located in Belgrade, is building some of the most advanced and widely used data processing cloud services in the world. The services we build are based on groundbreaking technology and are global market leaders, with millions of active users, deployed world-wide to many data centers, and applications ranging from small shops to large mission critical business workloads. Each service provides the benefits of automated database management: patching, high-availability, business continuity and disaster recovery, security, performance, elastic scalability, and many more. We're hiring for multiple services and teams within Azure Data.

Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance are database services based on Microsoft SQL Server technology, and are surface area compatible with the most popular proprietary DB tech in the world. Benefits of instant scaling and serverless mode, as well as intelligent performance tuning and security are available to all applications, whether migrated on-premise workloads or apps natively built for the cloud.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate and highly motivated to work on researching, solving deep technical problems, taking on challenges, and delivering cutting-edge market-leading software. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career.

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (software/electrical engineering).
• 8+ years of software design and development experiences.
• 5+ years of experience in technical design, problem-solving and debugging.
• 5+ years of experience with architecting, developing and maintaining large scale and data intensive systems.
• Passion for growth, learning new technical domains, and growing technical and soft skills.
• Experience in one or more programming languages, including, but not limited to: C/C++, Java, C#, Python, PowerShell, Rust.
• Experience with planning, organizing, and executing on project for software components and feature areas (work with wider group of committers).
• Demonstrated passion for customer engagement and experience, with data driven approach.
• Track record in driving project clarity and results through formal and non-formal leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and cross team collaboration skill (English speaking).
• People management experience is not required but is considered a bonus
• Experience with data intensive and large scale processing technologies and database systems is considered a bonus
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS/GCP) is considered a bonus

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• Drive and lead the software development projects from technical perspective, timelines, delivery, priority.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems.
• Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.
• Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of a cloud service.
• Contribute by fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties
• On-call duties and support include (live-site outage prevention and mitigations, root-cause analysis, enhancing operational readiness, dev-ops work, product repair work).
• Collaborate with teams across the world to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services.
• Proactively lead efforts for further improvements of the system, process and owned product areas/components.
• Mentor and guide the junior engineering colleagues.