Principal Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Provide end-to-end technical leadership for billing systems across Azure SQL Database and related SQL services.
• Define and drive a multi-year architecture to simplify and modernize billing, metering, and usage-processing pipelines.
• Improve billing correctness and reliability by identifying systemic risks and eliminating recurring production incidents.
• Lead technical investigations of complex production incidents to implement lasting architectural and operational improvements.
• Influence technical decisions across product and platform teams to establish common billing contracts and controls.
• Model and implement AI-assisted engineering practices across the development, testing, debugging, and operational lifecycles.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
• Experience designing, operating, or modernizing large-scale distributed cloud services or high-scale data-processing systems (preferred).
• Experience with billing, commerce, metering, licensing, usage processing, or financial data systems (preferred).
• Experience simplifying or redesigning mature production systems with multiple pipelines and data contracts (preferred).
• Proven ability to lead complex production incident investigations and turn findings into architectural improvements (preferred).
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and aligning diverse stakeholders (preferred).