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Posted date: Nov 19, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Estimated salary: $199,950
Range: $142,400 - $257,500
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewMicrosoft’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. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, 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 Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. Within Fabric, Data Team builds telemetry pipelines for both internal and external customers. This is a mission critical service built for scale, compliance and data guarantees also leveraging our world class technologies like Power BI, Azure Data Explorer, EventHub, Azure Data Factory to ensure robust telemetry flow and ease of consumption for diagnostics and analytics. We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain core-services, APIs and SDKs that are used to produce, pipeline and consume telemetry • Work with stakeholders to build and facilitate the usage of service data models, leveraging Azure and proprietary technologies • Drive improvements around areas of ownership in the service • Lead architecture, design, and develop features and solutions with high quality and scalability. • Design, implement, and refine chosen solutions in close partnership with Product Management and partner teams. • Be part of the on-call rotation for maintaining service health • Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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. - 3+ years developing and maintaining core-services, APIs and SDKs that are used to produce, pipeline and consume telemetry. 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 - Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $142,400 - CAD $257,500 per year.
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https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Software Engineering IC5 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 142,400 $ CAD à 257,500 $ CAD par année.
Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
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Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.
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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