Software Engineer I/II

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 in 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 databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable a multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer-friendly, mission-critical, AI-enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

We are looking for a Software Engineer I/II to join the Azure SQL Database group, with a passion for technology, building high-performance mission-critical systems and helping customers succeed on our platform by building industry-leading features and capabilities.

The Azure SQL Database service has millions of databases under its management. With this unprecedented growth come exciting technical challenges at scales previously unimaginable. These problems span a wide range of software engineering areas like core database systems (query processing, transaction processing, efficient locking, storage management), operating systems capabilities (scheduling, memory management, synchronization, resource governance), highly distributed systems (availability, geo-replication, disaster recovery, backup & restore, modern scale-out architectures), and networking systems (protocol design, SDNs, high-performance transports like RDMA).

We seek engineers with experience in one or more of these areas who are passionate about delivering high-quality features our customers will use and love.

This team is on a mission to define and deliver the best relational database service in the world. At your disposal, there will be SQL's state-of-the-art management system, a sophisticated database engine, and terabytes of telemetry to make informed decisions.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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

As a Software Engineer I/II, you will be responsible for the following:

• Design, code, test, and develop features that will improve the SQL DB service offerings ensuring quality, maintainability, and end-to-end ownership.
• Contribute to current and future product improvements around reliability and performance of the database service.
• Strengthen the engineering process to ensure cloud deployments are done in the most efficient way and meet the targeted reliability, performance, scalability, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) goals.
• Identify improvements in supportability and customer self-diagnostics to enhance live monitoring and address performance and reliability related issues.
• Collaborate, teach, and learn from a diverse team of world-class engineers.
• Learn our customers’ experience first-hand by participating in the on-call rotation for the service teams.
• Drive decisions with data, prioritize customer obsession, and leverage telemetry from production systems and customer usage patterns.

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Java.
  • OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience designing and developing high-performance and production quality C++ or C#/Java server software.
• 2+ years of experience developing backend services like storage, databases or networking systems in large distributed systems environment.

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 Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Java.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience designing and developing high-performance and production quality C++ or C#/Java server software.
• Extensive and specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Database systems, Operating systems (OS) internals, Distributed Storage systems, Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies and Cloud architecture.
• Native Windows development experience is a bonus (stack and heap management, threads, synchronization, debugging).
• 2+ years of experience related to Software Engineering skills covering design/development/usage of performance workloads/test-suites/Tools to measure, analyze and root cause reliability, performance, and scalability issues in the product.
• Effective debugging, problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills.

Microsoft will accept applications and process offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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.