Principal Software Engineer

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 Usage Billing team builds and operates the systems responsible for accurately capturing, aggregating, and processing usage across Microsoft Fabric and related services. These systems ensure reliable billing, compliance, and transparency for customers at scale. The team plays a critical role in enabling a seamless commercial experience, supporting both internal reporting and customer-facing billing accuracy across the Fabric ecosystem.

Come join the Azure Usage Billing team to build the next-generation usage platform to report billing for all Microsoft services and external customers. Microsoft Azure is a fast-growing business. Azure provides customers an on-demand scalable platform to build, host and operate services through Microsoft global data centers with 200+ distinct capabilities available in 50+ regions and all cloud instances.  Our customers use different Azure services and are billed as per their usage of these services with different SKUs (Stock Keeping Unit)/offers. This is a rare opportunity to define and drive the new frontier of infrastructure to meet the demands of growing Azure usage as well as supporting Office, AI and other Microsoft services by providing a unified, reliable, and accurate usage billing platform. This service offering will support the breadth of Azure offerings with additional capabilities for auditing, automated verification and reconciliation, analytics and much more!

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.

Responsibilities

• Full-lifecycle engineering ownership: strength on both sides of the code. That means the up-front work (design, failure-mode and threat analysis, testability and operability designed in from the start) and everything after it lands (validation, safe rollout, monitoring, on-call support, and long-term sustainment). Writing the feature is the middle third of the job, not the whole of it.
• Production excellence / SRE depth: demonstrated ownership of a high-scale live service, including on-call leadership and incident ownership during high severity incidents, service health engineering (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring and alerting design, telemetry-driven diagnostics), safe deployment practices, and a track record of driving root cause through to permanent fixes rather than mitigations.
• Test engineering depth: designs test strategy for distributed systems end to end, covering integration, fault injection/chaos, and performance/load validation, and builds the test infrastructure and CI/CD quality gates behind it (deterministic suites, environment and data management, flakiness elimination). Treats correctness and testability as design-time concerns rather than a pre-release activity.
• As a Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will have the opportunity to work with various Azure technologies to build a massively scalable cloud service.
• You will develop and validate various components needed to build a robust, distributed and resilient platform for Azure Usage Billing along with helping in the design of parts of the platform.
• This includes working on service management, programmability, usage pipeline, service fundamentals like monitoring, security, performance, engineering systems, tooling and live site.
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

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

• 4+ years technical engineering experience with C# and the .Net Framework and associated ecosystem.

• Proven Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience operating mission-critical cloud services, with ownership of on-call excellence, incident management, observability, reliability improvements, and safe service deployment practices.

• Experience running and testing large scale platforms in a cloud across multiple regions and clouds.

• Experience in using ML/AI models to support and accelerate all parts of the service lifecycle from planning to support and sustainment.

• Experience working with data plane infrastructure and SDK creation across one or more languages.

• Experience building complex distributed systems and sync/async message based platforms.

• An understanding of cloud development principles and patterns.

• Communications skills and ability to work collaboratively across several teams.

• Problem-solving skills with ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep.

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.