Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Do you have a desire to help shape the emerging data platform ecosystem with Cloud and Enterprise into a competitive differentiator? Do you want lead the effort of enabling millions of Microsoft Customers and Partners by delivering key insights on big data? Do you want to solve challenges that you didn’t even know existed until you get to a large scale of data?What about working directly with engineering counterparts and assorted business teams to influence how azure products, services, and business plans within Microsoft Commerce are operationalized and monetized? 

The goal of CPX core commerce services team is to foster a data-driven culture, to encourage and enable the azure customers and partners to make more informed decisions through data. As part of that work, team develops and operationalizes the high scale distributed data platform that enables Microsoft customers to realize and manage cloud costs and partner teams to operationalize their goals.

As the volume of data-and the demand for solutions-grows, we need a strong and experienced technical who can architect, deliver and manage data solutions.

• Plan, build roadmap for long term data strategies, data foundation, data assets to drive longer term needs for the team and partners
• Working with leadership team to enumerate our vision into execution
• Architect, Design, develop and maintain reliable and scalable big data pipelines and Storage solutions at Azure scale supporting sub second query response.
• Own Technical design and delivery of projects with holistic system view.
• Is obsessed about service health and strives for higher standards, guaranteeing high quality and high SLA datasets, that is built on CI/CD framework
• Innovate on technical and functional areas bringing efficiency on engineering rhythm of business.

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of people management experience
• 8+ years of programming experience in Java OR C# OR equivalent object-oriented programming
• 2+ years of application development experience using any Big Data technologies / Distributed Systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, OR equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Open Source Big Data Stack such as Hadoop, HIVE, SPARK etc.
• Experience leading and delivering projects that span multiple engineering organizations  
• Experience building and operating high scale and fault-tolerant data services.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and distributed systems
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).
• Experience working in a fast-paced/competitive environment, and have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
• Gets excited with hard technical problems and solve them with deep passion and empathy for customers.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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