Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Azure SQL DB is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their industry-leading managed relational database service team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on a rapidly growing platform that serves hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide with millions of databases across 40+ regions. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing revolutionary capabilities in database insights, auditing, performance optimization, encryption, and disaster recovery.

As a Principal Engineer, you'll be working on cutting-edge distributed systems, handling billions of REST API calls monthly while maintaining strict SLAs and consistency. You'll be instrumental in building the next generation of Control Plane platform designed for 100x customer growth, optimizing capacity utilization, and implementing solutions for massive-scale management.

The role combines deep technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, requiring you to mentor team members, partner with cross-functional teams, and drive architectural decisions. You'll be working with state-of-the-art cloud technologies, solving complex distributed systems challenges, and directly impacting millions of databases worldwide.

This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of cloud database services, working with a team that pushes the technological boundaries to meet the industry's most demanding data applications. You'll be at the forefront of cloud innovation, working on everything from regional fault tolerance to deep Azure platform integration.