Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering

Vancouver, BC, Canada

CAD 142,400-257,500 / year

Posted on May 8, 2026
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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.​
​​The Fabric Data Engineering Experience & Infrastructure team is hiring a AI Engineer to help build LLM-powered data engineering experiences and infrastructure for Fabric Data Engineering, based on Apache Spark. You will help implement agentic workflows and scalable LLM-backed data features (e.g., AI Functions integration, notebook copilots, evaluation/telemetry etc) with advanced capabilities designed to help Data Engineers achieve more through Microsoft Fabric. ​​
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.
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Responsibilities
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


Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 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
• 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


Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $142,400 - CAD $257,500 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
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:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html



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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