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Principal Software Engineering

India, Hyderabad · Job Posted February 13, 2026
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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. 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
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