Redefining databases in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs) by deeply integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into all parts of the stack, building a planet-scale multi-modal database from the ground up.
Requirements
- 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 1+ year(s) experience with cloud technologies, including, but not limited to Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.
- Currently programming/coding in your current or most recent role.
- Hands on experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency (threads, tasks, futures, async/await).
- Familiarity with graph-based indexing and vector similarity search in high-dimensional spaces.
- Contributions to open-source projects or published research in the areas of ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbor) search or database systems.
- Experience in systems-level software engineering with a focus on database internals, including query execution, indexing, and storage engine design.
Responsibilities
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- This will be an individual contributor role with the majority of time focused on coding responsibilities.
Other
- 3 days / week in-office
- Travel 0-25%
- Individual Contributor role
- Embody our culture and values.
- Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 13, 2025.
