Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Database Platform delivers world class relational database technologies used across the globe on everything from small devices, desktops and servers to some of the largest Cloud deployments in the world. Our data platform powers innovation in every industry, facilitates breakthrough scientific and medical research, and underpins intelligent applications that are changing the way we live. Enterprise customers are using these platforms to disrupt markets and transform their existing businesses. Today Microsoft is considered a leader when it comes to innovation in data platform capabilities. We are operating hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide with millions of databases in over 50 Azure regions. Our products push the limits of technology to exceed requirements of the most demanding data applications in the world, and our teams love solving these planet scale high impact challenges. With this unprecedented growth comes added complexity in our hardware ecosystem, at scales we never imagined before. This is your opportunity to take on a challenge and join Azure Data SQL Performance Engineering & Hardware team from the ground up. This team is on a mission to deliver the world class, cost effective, & high-performance operational database for On-Prem and Cloud platform running on modern h/w technology.