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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric. The Connectivity & Security team delivers the client entrypoint for SQL Server within Microsoft Fabric Datawarehouse, enabling secure, reliable, and performant connectivity. This role leads engineering for authentication, authorization, billing instrumentation, SQL query parsing, compilation, and distributed execution. As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will guide a high‑impact team building core integration between SQL Server and Fabric services, ensuring robust service behavior, security, and engineering excellence. You will drive feature design, service integration, code quality, unit testing, and live‑site reliability, including crash/dump analysis. The ideal candidate has strong coding experience in C++, C#, or Java (beyond scripting), with database engine or distributed systems experience a plus.
