Principal Software Engineering Job at Microsoft Corporation (Hyderabad)

Principal Software Engineering

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
India , Hyderabad

Category:
IT - Software Development

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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 are a team of passionate engineers who work on building and scaling the managed PostgreSQL service on Azure. We provide Migration capabilities for customers to move their large databases reliably to PostgreSQL on Azure ecosystem.

Job Responsibility:

Design and implement high‑throughput, low‑latency migration engines that can move terabytes–petabytes of data with correctness guarantees
Build robust CDC (Change Data Capture), logical replication, and log‑based streaming frameworks
Develop schema translation, data transformation, and complex type‑mapping logic across heterogeneous systems
Work deeply with database internals—storage, WAL/redo logs, MVCC, locking, query execution, replication
Drive reliability, performance, and fault‑tolerance improvements across migration workflows
Build diagnostics, observability, and troubleshooting frameworks to ensure predictable migrations at customer scale
Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and production readiness of new migration capabilities
Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
12+ years of software development experience using RUST, C++, GO or an equivalent systems programming language
Deep knowledge of database internals in PostgreSQL (preferred) and at least one among Oracle/MySQL
Proficiency in building highly concurrent, multi-threaded, performance‑optimized systems (Go, Rust, C/C++)
Strong debugging, performance tuning, and systems‑level problem‑solving skills
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

Contributions to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or strong exposure to Oracle internals
Prior work on database migration tools, replication frameworks, streaming systems, or data‑integration platforms

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 13, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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