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 databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable 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. Azure Database for MySQL is a fully managed relational database service from Microsoft. Our team is part of Database Systems organization and building the MySQL service on the common platform supporting all relational database workloads and leveraging the scale of our global presence in all Azure datacenters. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer about tackling the breadth of issues coming from running online services, such as improving availability, scalability, query performance and processing, storage and networking optimizations, operating systems integration, and more.
Requirements
- 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 4+ years of experience in developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system.
- 3+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade.
- Experience with Enterprise Database Management system.
- Experience building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Work on a team of world-class engineers, constantly learning, teaching, and collaborating to achieve excellence.
- Develop, test, and check-in code to deliver the best possible product to our customers.
- Makes decisions driven by data and customer feedback, allowing us to solve issues and make improvements in a timely and efficient manner.
- Invests time in building robust engineering systems that reduce overhead and enable us to focus on new challenges.
- Embraces open-source technologies and are always on the lookout for opportunities to use existing solutions.
- Solves problems by always leading with empathy for our customers.
- Looks forward to the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner. Work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Have experience working collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
