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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. Our portfolio includes 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 global data culture. Within Azure Data, the Usage Billing team builds the next-generation data platform for reliable ingestion, aggregation, and processing of usage emitted at high volume by Microsoft services, ensuring accurate and timely billing through internal Commerce systems. This is a mission-critical service built for scale, compliance, and data guarantees—leveraging world-class Azure real-time messaging, streaming, and analytics services to ensure critical billing usage data flows into revenue for Microsoft. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work with a breadth of Azure technologies to build a massively scalable, distributed, and resilient platform for Azure Usage Billing.
Job Responsibility:
Build cloud scale products with focus on efficiency, reliability and security
Build and maintain end-to-end Build, Test and Deployment pipelines
Contribute to the architecture & design of the products
Triaging issues and implementing solutions to restore service with minimal disruption to the customer and business. Perform root cause analysis, trend analysis and post-mortems
Drive initiatives, own features and lead the feature delivery along with the team
Owning the components and driving them end to end, all the way from gathering requirements, development, testing, deployment to ensuring high quality and availability post deployment
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in software development, architecture/design, data modeling or data engineering work
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ year(s) experience in software development, architecture/design, data modeling or data engineering work
OR equivalent experience
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team, including Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security experts
Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed cloud services with strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
Strong operational discipline with the ability to manage live-site health, respond to randomization, and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes
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