CrawlJobs Logo
Microsoft Corporation Logo Microsoft Corporation · IT - Software Development

Principal Developer Advocate

Switzerland, Zürich · Job Posted March 05, 2026
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

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. We're seeking a Principal Developer Advocate to champion the adoption of our Postgres database services and application frameworks in application developer communities around the globe. This role is deeply embedded as part of our product team, and serves as the connective tissue between product strategy and developer community. You'll combine deep hands-on development expertise with thought leadership to win over application developers and drive Azure Postgres service adoption through authentic developer storytelling. Work hands-on to improve and refine our libraries and the developer experience as a whole.

Job Responsibility

  • Craft compelling technical narratives that show how our database platform enhances workflows of database administrators and productivity of application developers especially when building Generative AI agents
  • Organize and deliver live presentations, workshops, and webinars to drive awareness and practical adoption
  • Create technical content (tutorials, sample apps, blog posts, videos) that demonstrates real-world uses and best practices for the company’s platform or APIs
  • Maintain and contribute to developer-facing documentation, SDKs, command-line tools, and code examples to improve onboarding and reduce friction
  • Act as the primary liaison between the developer community and engineering team
  • surface feature requests and usability issues
  • Advocate for developer-first design inside the team by insisting on clarity, tooling, and workflows that reduce cognitive load and friction
  • Measure and report on developer metrics (adoption, retention, active usage, contributions) and craft narratives to show business impact
  • Embody our culture and values

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree AND experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
  • Experience in database management
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

  • Postgres database expertise
  • Postgres performance analysis and optimization expertise
  • GenAI/ML expertise, including hands-on AI app development and deployment
  • Front-end frameworks and component libraries experience
  • Generative AI agent frameworks expertise
  • API design and consumption
  • Building and publishing SDKs and client libraries
  • Sample app architecture and full-stack demo construction
  • Debugging tools and troubleshooting production issues
  • Git workflows and open-source contribution patterns
  • Containerization (Docker) and local orchestration
  • Azure cloud platform fundamentals
  • CI/CD pipelines and release automation
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Instrumentation and monitoring basics (logs, metrics, traces)
  • Command-line interface (CLI) tooling and scripting
  • Package management and registry publishing (npm, PyPI)
  • Security basics (auth flows, tokens, OAuth, API keys)
  • Testing strategies for example code (unit/integration)
  • Public speaking and stage presence
  • Technical storytelling and narrative construction
  • Empathy with developer challenges and workflows
  • Clear, concise technical writing for diverse audiences
  • Community building and relationship management
  • Feedback synthesis and product advocacy
  • Time management and prioritization across travel and content creation
  • Collaboration and cross-functional communication
  • Problem framing and solution validation
  • Adaptability and resilience under public scrutiny
Microsoft Corporation - All Job Offers

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Suggested Tags: Frontend Developer Secretary Talent Manager Salesforce Administrator Data Analyst
Similar Jobs for

Principal Developer Advocate

8 matching positions

Principal, Developer Relations, AI Developer Ecosystem

We are seeking a Principal, Developer Relations leader to shape and grow Arm’s A...
Location
Location
China , Shanghai
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
arm.com Logo
ARM
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Proven experience in Developer Relations, technical alliances, or partner management within the AI, software, or semiconductor industry in China, ideally including engineering team leadership
  • Strong understanding of AI frameworks, model optimization, and hardware–software interactions, with specific knowledge of the China AI ecosystem
  • Familiarity with Arm architectures and their advantages for AI performance and efficiency in cloud, edge, or mobile scenarios
  • Demonstrated experience leading and managing DevRel engineers or developer advocates (or similar technical advocacy roles), including setting goals, coaching, and hiring
  • Excellent communication and relationship management skills, able to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders, from developer communities to senior executives
  • Ability to analyze market and developer trends and influence strategic decisions based on AI software readiness and developer needs unique to China
  • Experience working with AI ISVs, open-source communities, or AI software ecosystem enablement initiatives in China
  • Fluency in Mandarin and English, with strong cross-cultural communication skills
  • Self-motivated, comfortable operating at a principal level, and able to manage multiple strategic initiatives in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Developer Relations engineers/advocates, providing clear goals, coaching, and performance feedback
  • Define the operating model, priorities, and success metrics for the DevRel team in China, aligning with global Arm strategy and regional business goals
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop DevRel talent, building a high-performing team with complementary strengths in advocacy, content, and ecosystem enablement
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and “learn in public” within the DevRel team
  • Define and lead the Developer Relations strategy for AI in China, ensuring key AI frameworks, models, and applications are optimized for Arm platforms across cloud, edge, and device
  • Identify gaps and opportunities in the China AI ecosystem and translate them into clear DevRel initiatives, programs, and technical investments
  • Influence internal product and engineering roadmaps with developer and partner feedback, market signals, and AI software readiness needs specific to China
  • Act as a principal-level technical advocate for AI on Arm in China, representing Arm at conferences, meetups, webinars, and online communities
  • Guide your team to create high-impact technical content—sample code, reference implementations, tutorials, blog posts, and talks—that demonstrates best practices for AI workloads on Arm
  • Work with engineering and documentation teams to improve SDKs, tools, and documentation, drive benchmarks and competitive analysis, making it easy for Chinese developers to evaluate, adopt, and optimize AI on Arm
What we offer
What we offer
  • Health and Wellness
  • Work and Life Success
  • Financial Rewards
  • Development and Support
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Engineer (AI / Agentic Developer Productivity)

Are you a Software Engineer already at the forefront of agentic AI development —...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Prior experience building with Agent SDKs, large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, or AI orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, or similar)
  • Familiarity with agentic AI development patterns — multi-step reasoning, tool/function calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Proven experience as a Software Engineer delivering large-scale, production-quality systems
  • Proficient software engineering fundamentals: system design, algorithms, testing, debugging, and code review
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor peers in a collaborative team environment
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces where best practices are still being established
  • Hands-on experience with AI-powered developer tooling and coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot and Copilot Workspace, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT, Cursor
  • Prior experience using agentic plugins, agents, skills, hooks, etc.
  • Experience dogfooding, evaluating, and forming opinions on emerging AI developer tools, and translating those insights into team-wide best practices
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own and deliver complete features across the development lifecycle, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and servicing
  • Use AI in your daily coding and advocate to the team and customers an evolving state-of-the-art of how best to do this
  • Demonstrate resiliency to experiment and try multiple AI approaches that may not work — because no one has tried them before
  • Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers in, and beyond, your team
  • Write and review clean, well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability
  • Contribute positively to a culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Retail Coverage Merchandiser

As the Retail Coverage Merchandiser, you'll be responsible for optimizing produc...
Location
Location
United States , San Diego
Salary
Salary:
18.00 USD / Hour
acosta.com Logo
Acosta
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • High School Diploma/GED required
  • Prior retail experience preferred, but not required
  • Strong demonstration of core competency including quality commitment, attention to detail, customer service, and communication skills
  • Ability to lift up to 60 pounds and stand and/or walk for long periods
  • Must have reliable transportation to visit a set territory of various retail locations
  • Must be at least 18 years of age
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Conducting store visits
  • Collaborating with store managers
  • Utilizing technology for data collection
  • Maintaining product display standards
  • Providing retail sales merchandising
  • Completing special projects
  • Building strong relationships with store managers
  • Covering a set territory of retailers
  • Supporting store managers on retail initiatives
  • Upselling the retail plan
What we offer
What we offer
  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Company-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • 401k program
  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) program
  • Flexible schedules with no weekend work
  • Full benefits package for Full-Time associates
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Svp Engineering

We are seeking a visionary, inspirational Senior Vice President of Engineering t...
Location
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
hazelcast.com Logo
Hazelcast
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in software engineering, with at least 7+ years operating at the VP, SVP, or CTO level, preferably in a B2B enterprise software or platform company
  • Demonstrated experience fostering a product-led culture and driving commercial results through engineering excellence
  • Proven ability to manage large departmental budgets, optimize engineering spend, and translate complex technical decisions into clear business value for executive-level stakeholders
  • Deep understanding of complex architectures, concurrent, distributed systems, high-performance compute, and real-time data architectures
  • Excel at balancing open-source community expectations with enterprise requirements, maintaining rigorous public API discipline, documentation standards, and governance practices
  • Experience nurturing a global developer and operator community—across polyglot clients, cloud-native deployments, and hybrid environments
  • Proven track record of successfully scaling and leading a geographically distributed, international engineering organisation of significant size
  • A strong foundation in the core technologies relevant to the Hazelcast platform including Java, concurrency, networking, data streaming, SQL, distributed data stores, data grids
  • Ability to engage deeply with Principal Engineers and Architects on complex technical designs
  • Expertise in modern agile methodologies and continuous delivery pipelines, focused on delivering product capabilities rapidly, reliably, and at scale
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Define and champion a multi-year technology strategy and architectural vision that anticipates market trends and directly aligns with the company’s long-term business objectives and revenue growth
  • Collaborate at the executive level with Product Management to define, prioritize, and drive the technical direction of the product roadmap, ensuring engineering input enhances technical execution, architectural quality, commercial value, differentiated packaging, and timely delivery
  • Drive, own, and manage end-to-end engineering delivery against the product roadmap, utilizing agile methodologies to ensure rapid, predictable, and high-quality releases at an enterprise scale
  • Maintain and continuously elevate world-class standards for system quality, performance, security, and resilience across the entire platform, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability for our largest customers
  • Provide executive oversight for core technical domains (distributed systems, high-performance Java, concurrency, streaming, data structures) while aggressively evaluating and integrating emerging technologies to maintain a competitive market edge
  • Manage the engineering budget, drive ROI on technology investments, and optimize resource allocation to ensure maximum business impact and operational efficiency
  • Steward Hazelcast’s open-source core with a strong commitment to transparency, stability, and long-term compatibility, ensuring community trust while advancing enterprise capabilities
  • Balance the needs of commercial customers with the expectations of a global, user-led open-source community, making principled, strategic decisions about feature placement, deprecations, and roadmap visibility
  • Serve as a prominent voice and advocate for the company within the broader open-source and real-time data ecosystems, influencing industry standards and building strategic technological partnerships
  • Convert high-volume user feedback from diverse production environments into clear engineering priorities, ensuring the OSS platform remains robust, predictable, and widely adoptable
What we offer
What we offer
  • 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays + Quarterly Wellbeing Days
  • Group Company Pension Plan
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Private Dental Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Principal Product Manager

The Principal Product Manager is a senior product leadership role accountable fo...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
142121.00 - 227394.00 USD / Year
onecallcm.com Logo
One Call
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM or business-related field, or equivalent education, training and relevant work experience
  • 10+ years of experience in product management, preferably in a technology or SaaS environment
  • Proven track record of managing successful products from concept to launch
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams in Agile environments
  • Familiarity with modern product management tools and practices
  • Strong understanding of product development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Lean)
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to synthesize customer insights, market data, and business goals into actionable product strategies
  • Strong prioritization and decision-making skills in fast-paced environments
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Develop and communicate a compelling product vision and strategy aligned with business goals, customer needs and quantified impacts
  • Conducts user research, analyze data, and gather feedback to identify pain points and opportunities
  • Create and maintain product roadmaps that balance customer value, technical feasibility, and business impact
  • Translate business and user needs into detailed product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams
  • Partner with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and support to ensure successful product development and launch
  • Own the delivery of the features / initiative on the roadmap, escalating issues and blockers that arise during development
  • Track impact / ROI by defining KPIs to evaluate product success and inform future decisions
  • Work with marketing and sales to develop launch plans that resonate with target users and drive adoption
  • Oversee products from ideation through development, launch, growth, and eventual sunset if needed
  • Advocate for intuitive, delightful, and accessible product experiences
What we offer
What we offer
  • Remote Work
  • 8 company holidays and 2 personal days every year
  • Minimum of 18 days of paid time off
  • medical insurance
  • dental insurance
  • vision insurance
  • pet insurance
  • 401(k) matching program
  • company-paid life insurance
  • short and long-term disability coverage
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right
New

Principal Product Manager

The Principal Product Manager is a senior product leadership role accountable fo...
Location
Location
United States
Salary
Salary:
142121.00 - 227394.00 USD / Year
onecallcm.com Logo
One Call
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) or business-related field, or equivalent education, training and relevant work experience
  • 10+ years of experience in product management, preferably in a technology or SaaS environment
  • Proven track record of managing successful products from concept to launch
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams in Agile environments
  • Familiarity with modern product management tools and practices
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Develop and communicate a compelling product vision and strategy aligned with business goals, customer needs and quantified impacts with little guidance and direction from VP of Product
  • Conducts user research, analyze data, and gather feedback to identify pain points and opportunities across tools, processes, and experiences
  • collaborates with key customers to identify emerging needs
  • Create and maintain product roadmaps that balance customer value, technical feasibility, and business impact
  • partner with other Product Managers to offer subject matter expertise to inform their roadmaps
  • Translate business and user needs into detailed product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams
  • Partner with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and support to ensure successful product development and launch
  • Own the delivery of the features / initiative on the roadmap, escalating issues and blockers that arise during development, driving updates and expectations management with stakeholders and participating / leading the ceremonies as part of our product development life cycle
  • Track impact / ROI by defining KPIs to evaluate product success and inform future decisions
  • Work with marketing and sales to develop launch plans that resonate with target users and drive adoption
What we offer
What we offer
  • Remote Work: We are a remote-first company, and almost all positions receive the flexibility of working from home
  • Generous Time Off: Besides 8 company holidays and 2 personal days every year, all colleagues receive a minimum of 18 days of paid time off
  • Comprehensive Benefits Package: Including medical, dental, vision, and pet insurance
  • 401(k) matching program
  • and company-paid life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage
  • Supportive Services: Just like our colleagues get injured workers the care they need when they need it, we want to do the same for our colleagues in their time of need. We offer a Colleague Assistance Program that provides free counseling and financial services, and our One Call Foundation, a non-profit arm of our company, provides colleagues financial assistance during times of unexpected hardships
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Applied Scientist (Multiple Openings) - Copilot and Agents Core

As Microsoft continues to push the boundaries of AI, we are looking for passiona...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
142800.00 - 304200.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience
  • 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.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • You will master a broad area or research and understand any applicable research techniques. You’ll also serve as a team expert on changes in industry trends, products, and other advances, and apply this knowledge to influence product needs
  • You will review business and product requirement, incorporate research, and provide strategic direction for problem solving. You’ll also ensure scientific rigor, support the development of methods, and apply your expertise to support business impact
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and understand user requirements and expectations. Seek and incorporate continuous feedback from users and stakeholders to iteratively improve designs and solutions
  • You will document work and experimentation results and share findings to promote innovation. You’ll provide guidance when capturing processes and contribute to ethics and privacy policies related to research processes and data collection
  • Facilitate design meetings, creates design documents, and ensures alignment with project goals. Design system architecture that meets security, compliance, and scalability requirements
  • Lead implementation and deployment of solutions, ensuring they meet quality standards. Translate project vision into actionable milestones and guide the team in project estimation and planning. Mentor and guide team members to produce extensible and maintainable code through code reviews and pair programming
  • You will identify and inspire peers and new research talent to join Microsoft, build relationships, and advocate for research initiatives. You’ll share research findings through industry outreach, collaborate with the academic community, and help develop the recruiting pipeline
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Engineer

Do you want to build AI-powered developer services that enable a billion builder...
Location
Location
India , Hyderabad
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years of industry experience building and shipping software using modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Go or Python
  • Track record of successfully leading end-to-end engineering projects from conception to delivery across multiple ship cycles
  • Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to deliver customer and business impact
  • Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products
  • Track record of collaborating effectively with multiple cross-functional teams across geographies
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design, implement, test, instrument, document and run PaaS Services in Azure
  • Partner with product management, OSS community, ISV partners, customers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, scope projects and ship products in rapid, iterative cycles
  • Stay up to date on industry trends around AI Advancements, Cloud Native technologies, open source development and dev ops processes, leading efforts on innovation, modern design, and reliability engineering
  • Champion engineering practices of safe and fast paced releases – e.g. flight code changes and drive telemetry and analytics to take a data-driven approach to understanding customer impact
  • Support and influence team culture of customer obsession, continuous improvement, reflection, and growth - mentor, initiate and participate in in design and code sharing
  • Be avid customer advocate – meet with customers, and product support to learn about their experience, analyze how features are performing in production and make the product better
  • Build for security, privacy, scalability, reliability, and compliance
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right