Overview
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 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.
We are a team of passionate engineers who work on building and scaling the managed PostgreSQL service on Azure. We provide Migration capabilities for customers to move their large databases reliably to PostgreSQL on Azure ecosystem.
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
* Design and implement high‑throughput, low‑latency migration engines that can move terabytes–petabytes of data with correctness guarantees.
Build robust CDC (Change Data Capture), logical replication, and log‑based streaming frameworks.
Develop schema translation, data transformation, and complex type‑mapping logic across heterogeneous systems.
Work deeply with database internals—storage, WAL/redo logs, MVCC, locking, query execution, replication.
Drive reliability, performance, and fault‑tolerance improvements across migration workflows.
Build diagnostics, observability, and troubleshooting frameworks to ensure predictable migrations at customer scale.
Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and production readiness of new migration capabilities.
Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
**Required/Minimum Qualifications **
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
12+ years of software development experience using RUST, C++, GO or an equivalent systems programming language
Deep knowledge of database internals in PostgreSQL (preferred) and at least one among Oracle/MySQL.
Proficiency in building highly concurrent, multi-threaded, performance‑optimized systems (Go, Rust, C/C++)
Strong debugging, performance tuning, and systems‑level problem‑solving skills.
**Job Requirements: Other & Additional **
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 **
* Contributions to PostgreSQL, MySQL, or strong exposure to Oracle internals
- Prior work on database migration tools, replication frameworks, streaming systems, or data‑integration platforms.
**Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP) **
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers).
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**