Principal Software Engineering

Job Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

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 Fabric App Dev team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help build the foundation of data app platform on Microsoft Fabric. This team owns the development of the data app platform on Microsoft Fabric, enabling developers to build, manage, and operate applications with simplicity and SaaS-like efficiency.

As a key member of this newly formed team, you will work on delivering core capabilities for Data Apps on Fabric. You will contribute to designing and implementing core capabilities in products like API for GraphQL, User Data Functions that are leveraged to build rich apps on Fabric. This role offers the opportunity to work across the entire stack—from backend distributed systems, Web UX to developer experience tooling like VS Code—while collaborating across teams in Microsoft Fabric and other Azure organizations. This will give you opportunity to influence end-to-end product direction. You will thrive in an environment that values innovation, ambiguity, and technical depth, and play a mentorship role in shaping the team culture as we scale.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

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