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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Hyderabadfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Microsoft Azure Data engineering team seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead data movement/replication initiatives within the Fabric Data Movement team, delivering high-quality, scalable data transfer services with minimal latency and user-friendly interfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
  • Manage a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.
  • Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to next level.
  • Own career development of team through active coaching.
  • Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion.
  • Hire and develop the best.
  • You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result-oriented.
  • Join a team of builders and innovators that think outside the box. A team that’s committed to a low operational burden by designing for it.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience in data integration or migrations or ELT or ETL tooling is mandatory
  • 4+ years leading teams delivering complex cross functional features with high business impact.
  • Working in agile teams with strong customer focus.
  • Good communication and cross group collaboration skills.
  • Experience in Azure, Exchange, or other cloud and distributed systems is a big plus.
  • Demonstrated experience leading and growing team

Skills

Required:Leadership and team managementData integration / ELT / ETL toolingCommunication and collaboration
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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