Principal Software Engineer

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. The engineering systems team in Azure SQL owns the technologies and services that enable the entire organization to do product and service development and engineering with high quality and efficiency. The team builds and runs code movement pipelines, intelligent validation services, and scalable test environments so that the organization can deliver features and values for Azure SQL customers. We are leveraging to AI to improve developer's experience. We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer to focus on upgrading the SQL code base to use future versions of the compiler, improving build time and performance, and modernizing tools in the development process.