Principal Software Engineer
Overview
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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data - structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.
Scope is Microsoft's massively scalable analytics engine, handling hundreds of thousands of jobs and exabytes of data every day. The Scope Compiler team is looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to help design and build the Scope scripting language - taking customers' high-level data operations written in Python and C# and running them on thousands of machines. If you're interested in compilers, language and library design, or high-performance data analytics, we want to hear from you!
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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Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
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
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
- Interest in compilers/learning compilers, language design, or data analytics.
- Experience in C# and Python would be a plus.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $135,800 - CAD $253,000 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 19, 2025.
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Responsibilities
The Scope system spans five main areas, language design, query optimization, job scheduling, data processing, and data storage. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Scope Compiler team, you'll be a member of a small team of language designers focused on:
- Scope's scripting capabilities in C# and Python.
- Compiler engineering - parsing, type-checking, query planning, and code generation.
- Opportunities to impact the entire language stack including our heuristic-driven optimizer, our massively parallel distributed scheduler, and our optimized data processing engine.
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