**Overview** **Overview** We are Azure Data, a Microsoft team that drives the future of data processing in the Microsoft Cloud. Our software development team, located in Belgrade, is building some of the most advanced and widely used data processing cloud services in the world. The services we build are based on groundbreaking technology and are global market leaders, with millions of active users, deployed world-wide to many data centers, and applications ranging from small shops to large mission critical business workloads. Each service provides the benefits of automated database management: patching, high-availability, business continuity and disaster recovery, security, performance, elastic scalability, and many more. We're hiring for multiple services and teams within Azure Data. Our team is building the next-generation platform that powers mission-critical workloads across Azure SQL and Azure Databases. We are reimagining the architecture by leveraging Azure-native services and a modern container-based tech stack to deliver unparalleled scalability, resiliency, and performance. This is a unique opportunity to work on foundational engineering challenges—designing distributed systems, optimizing for cloud-native patterns, and enabling seamless deployment at global scale. We collaborate closely with other Azure engineering teams and research groups to push the boundaries of innovation. If you are passionate about modern cloud technologies, solving deep technical problems, and shaping the future of platform engineering, we’d love to have you join us. We are looking for a **Principal Software Engineer** who is passionate and highly motivated to work on researching, solving deep technical problems, taking on challenges, and delivering cutting-edge market-leading software. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career. **Responsibilities** **Responsibilities** + Drive and lead the software development projects from technical perspective, timelines, delivery, priority. + Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems. + Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals. + Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of a cloud service. + Contribute by fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties + On-call duties and support include (live-site outage prevention and mitigations, root-cause analysis, enhancing operational readiness, dev-ops work, product repair work). + Collaborate with teams across the world to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services. + Proactively lead efforts for further improvements of the system, process and owned product areas/components. + Mentor and guide the junior engineering colleagues. **Qualifications** **Qualifications** + Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (software/electrical engineering). + 8+ years of software design and development experiences. + 5+ years of experience in technical design, problem-solving and debugging. + 5+ years of experience with architecting, developing and maintaining large scale and data intensive systems. + Passion for growth, learning new technical domains, and growing technical and soft skills. + Experience in one or more programming languages, including, but not limited to: C/C++, Java, C#, Python, PowerShell, Rust. + Experience with planning, organizing, and executing on project for software components and feature areas (work with wider group of committers). + Demonstrated passion for customer engagement and experience, with data driven approach. + Track record in driving project clarity and results through formal and non-formal leadership skills. + Excellent communication and cross team collaboration skill (English speaking). + People management experience is not required but is considered a bonus + Experience with data intensive and large scale processing technologies and database systems is considered a bonus + Experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS/GCP) is considered a bonus 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. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)