Principal Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Are you interested in data processing using parallel algorithms in the cloud? Are you passionate about building mission-critical, high-performance, distributed systems? Do you find the current big data systems severely lacking for interactive queries? Do you want to leverage your systems programming skills to advance the state of the art in columnar data storage and query processing techniques while collaborating with a world class research organization (Microsoft Research)? If yes, consider joining our team and help us build the next generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (ADW) - the state-of-the-art scale-out relational data warehouse service in the cloud, with the industry leading Microsoft SQL Server at its core.

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or in place of 3+ years of internship or 3+ years of industry engineering experience
* 10+ years of programming experience in Java OR C++ OR C OR object-oriented programming

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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.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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Are you interested in data processing using parallel algorithms in the cloud? Are you passionate about building mission-critical, high-performance, distributed systems? Do you find the current big data systems severely lacking for interactive queries? Do you want to leverage your systems programming skills to advance the state of the art in columnar data storage and query processing techniques while collaborating with a world class research organization (Microsoft Research)? If yes, consider joining our team and help us build the next generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (ADW) - the state-of-the-art scale-out relational data warehouse service in the cloud, with the industry leading Microsoft SQL Server at its core.