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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 in 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, our Graph team is dedicated to simplifying the process of extracting insights from the vast scale of interconnected business data prevalent in every organization. We are driven by our goal to enable all users to visualize, analyze, and enrich the intricate relationships within their business data. We are currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer who can define and implement our vision of scale-out graph indices and graph algorithms systems, enabling large-scale graph analytics for data analysts, business users, and data scientists across all organizations.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
You will lead the development of the core database index, query planning and execution, and language development stack.
You will design, implement, and lead modularization, optimization, testing, repairability, and observability of the core system components.
You will design and participate in the implementation of appropriate observability metrics and analyze these metrics to improve the quality of decisions.
You will steer the team to drive multiple group project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
As a Principal Engineer, you will help the graph core database engineering team grow.
You will embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
Extensive years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C++, Java, or Python.
Relevant years of experience in the development and operation of distributed systems as an Individual Contributor or Manager.
Demonstrated experience in Graph high-performance compute, low-latency serving, or algorithm development.
Other Requirements
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred/Additional Qualifications
Preferred demonstrated experience of graph database query languages, e.g. OpenCypher, Datalog.
Preferred knowledge of query planning and execution in graph or non-relational DBMS.
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