Overview
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the Principal Software Engineer provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We are in the process of integrating our disparate products into Azure Synapse Analytics with a set of experiences that are meant to simplify and accelerate time to value.  
The SQL team is hiring engineers with experience programming graphics processors (GPUs) to help us accelerate data processing operations. This requires both systems programming expertise on how to maximize performance when using a GPU as well as understanding how to leverage novel data structures and formats to work well with CPU-based data processing techniques. This is an opportunity to work on leading-edge technologies with the potential for large impact

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Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements
• 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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with 10 years of work experience building systems software or back-end software in the fields of database systems, operating systems, or other systems fields with a deep hardware focus
• 6+ years of experience with programming GPUs (CUDA, DirectCompute, OpenCL, or similar GPU programming frameworks)
• Strong technical background in algorithms (Big-O complexity analysis)
Strong systems engineering background with an understanding of modern computer memory hierarchies, direct memory access mechanisms, and PCIe devices and related device drivers
• Unmanaged language expertise strongly preferred.
• Good understanding of database system internals
• Ability to do performance analysis/improvements on multi-threaded server software
• Experience in building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Results-oriented with a passion for delighting customers with our work
• Ability to work collaboratively, solve programs in groups, and celebrate success as a team

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 10, 2024.