Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data, and the Azure SQL Database Storage/IO resource governance team is responsible for ensuring high efficiency of operations while interacting with storage, governing IO resources, and optimizing performance for customers.
Requirements
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 4+ years' experience in building and operating a cloud service.
- 4+ years of experience with at-scale distributed systems, and/or data analytics and relevant data systems at the Petabytes+ scale.
- 6+ years of proficiency with C++, and/or C, and knowledge of SQL
- Understands the reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and debuggability requirements in a large cloud system
- 6+ years of experience with testing (performance, stress, fault injection testing)
- 6+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Stay updated on recent trends in the database world focusing on storage, networking, reliability, scalability, and security.
- Provide guidance and mentor other engineers, enabling them to succeed in the team and space.
- Conduct code reviews that help shape and steer the team coding guidelines.
- Develop deep insights into customer utilization of their databases and resources available.
- Employ reliable analytical skills to build flexible infrastructure to learn, and model, current and future database resource consumption.
- Focus on building the necessary storage infrastructure, and models (with terabytes of service logging telemetry) that allow us to make prudent, and informed decisions with respect to SQL DB storage infrastructure.
- Ensure service viability and success with dependable understanding of a variety of business and engineering factors.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
- Travel requirements not specified
- Must be able to work in a team environment and collaborate with others
