Principal Software Engineer

As an engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on the latest technology in big data areas, and build world class Big Data Analytics experience for cloud customers:

• Design and develop world-class experience for new big data cloud offering
• Plan, schedule and deliver quality software incrementally
• Review changes to product codebase and provide constructive feedback that align with industry best practices
• Maintain and operate cloud online services
• Passion and experience for building great developer experience and user experience of modern analytics systems
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with teams across the world and celebrate successes

Do you have experience in Spark?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND substantial experience in industry software engineering experience
• Proven experience in programming experience in service/backend.

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., * Software development experience building scalable, distributed services using C# or other high-level languages
• Software development experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming
• Software development experience on service fabric or Kubernetes

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience with open-source components like Spark as a plus
• Experience with Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Compute/Storage/Network resource provisioning & management as a plus

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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