Principal Software Engineering Manager

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. Our portfolio includes  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 global data culture.

Within Azure Data, the  Usage Billing team  builds the next-generation data platform for reliable ingestion, aggregation, and processing of usage emitted at high volume by Microsoft services, ensuring accurate and timely billing through internal Commerce systems. This is a  mission-critical service  built for scale, compliance, and data guarantees—leveraging world-class Azure real-time messaging, streaming, and analytics services to ensure critical billing usage data flows into revenue for Microsoft.

As A Principal Software Engineer, You Will Have The Opportunity To Work With a Breadth Of Azure Technologies To Build a Massively Scalable, Distributed, And Resilient Platform For Azure Usage Billing. You Will

• Lead the design, development, and validation of core platform components, ensuring service fundamentals around reliability, monitoring, security, performance, and engineering systems.
• Drive architectural decisions for complex distributed systems that power billing across all Microsoft services.
• Partner across Microsoft teams to shape the underlying design of shared components, ensuring alignment with the broader Microsoft ecosystem and long-term technical direction.
• Lead critical pipeline components that run all Microsoft billing workloads, providing unified and accurate usage reporting across Azure, Office, and other services. This work is highly visible, with direct impact on Microsoft's revenue stream.
• Influence and mentor engineers across the team and organization, raising the bar for technical excellence, collaboration, and live-site culture.

Come join the  Azure Usage Billing team  to build the next-generation usage platform that powers billing for all Microsoft services and future external customers. Microsoft Azure is a fast-growing business, providing customers an on-demand, scalable platform with 200+ distinct capabilities across 50+ regions. This role represents a  rare opportunity to define and drive the new frontier of Microsoft's billing infrastructure —enabling auditing, automated verification and reconciliation, analytics, and beyond.

At Microsoft, we don't just value differences—we seek them out and invite them in, so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. The result is stronger teams, better products, and better outcomes for our customers.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications

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 :

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP)

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Skills Required

Software Development, Architecture Design, Power Bi, Reliability, Data Modeling, Scalability, Performance, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Distributed Systems, Azure Synapse Analytics