Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is looking to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. The Azure Data SQL Core Team is looking for a Software Engineer II to build the next set of industry-leading features and capabilities for Azure SQL Database operating system, focusing on driving product performance and reducing TCO.
Requirements
- 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- 2+ years of hands-on coding experience shipping products across multiple release cycles.
- 2+ years of experience designing and developing production quality software using C/C++; proven experience in improving product performance.
- Extensive and specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Database/OS internals, Big Data technologies, Hardware knowledge (CPU/System/Networking/Storage..), and Cloud related technologies.
- 2+ years of experience related to Performance Engineering skills covering design/development/usage of performance workloads/test-suites/Tools to measure, analyze and root cause performance and scalability issues in the product.
- Experience in both Windows and Linux system administration fundamentals.
Responsibilities
- Identifying and driving prototype projects for quick evaluation of design ideas.
- Contributing to current and future product improvements around performance (perf/scale/SLA).
- Looking into emerging and upcoming Azure HW SKUs and technologies, exploring new ideas to drive product improvements (hardware/software/config/COGS).
- Strengthening the engineering process to ensure cloud deployments (software & hardware) are done in the most efficient way and meet the targeted perf/scale/SLA goals.
- Identifying improvements in supportability and customer self-diagnostics that enable live monitoring with focus on identifying/addressing performance related issues.
- Spend days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers.
- Obsessed with customers, making data-driven decisions, and using telemetry collected from customers and production systems.
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.
- Methodical problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Embody our culture and values.
