Overview

- 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.

Within Azure Data, the data integration team builds data gravity on the Microsoft Cloud. Massive volumes of data are generated - not just from transactional systems of record, but also from the world around us. Our data integration products - Azure Data Factory and Power Query make it easy for customers to bring in, clean, shape, and join data, to extract intelligence.

The Fabric Data Movement team is currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their team. This team is in charge of designing, building, and operating a next generation service that transfers large volumes of data from various source systems to target systems with mínimal latency while providing a data centric orchestration platform. The team focuses on advanced data movement/replication scenarios while maintaining user-friendly interfaces. Working collaboratively, the team utilizes a range of technologies to deliver high-quality products at a rapid pace.

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

Responsibilities

- Code Quality & Best Practices
- Leads by example in writing extensible, maintainable code.
- Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code for performance and ROI.
- Applies metrics and coding standards to ensure stability and quality.
- Debugging & Issue Resolution
- Uses logs, telemetry, and tools for proactive and reactive debugging.
- Conducts root cause analysis and retrospective reviews.




- Code Reviews
- Ensures code meets Microsoft and team standards.
- Reviews for diagnosability, reliability, maintainability.
- Provides feedback and enforces best practices.
- Architecture & Design
- Leads architecture discussions and creates design proposals.
- Develops design documents and validates security/compliance.
- Owns some design decisions and shares learnings with the team.
- Testing & Quality Assurance
- Defines clear testing plans and success criteria.
- Improves test coverage, adds automation, and removes outdated tests.
- Drives continuous integration of testing features.
- Dependency Management
- Identifies and manages cross-team dependencies.
- Ensures security, performance, and reliability across systems.
- Coordinates with other teams to resolve conflicts and optimize chains.
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Works with PMs and leads to gather user requirements.
- Incorporates feedback loops for customer value and usage insights.
- Embody our culture and values

Qualifications :

- Required/Minimum Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience in data integration or migrations or ELT or ETL tooling is mandatory




- 10+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization.

Solid software design and architecture skills for features and components spanning both horizontally and vertically. Job Requirements: Other & Additional

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

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

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated experience in building cloud services with multi-tier architecture.

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