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. M
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 SQL Database is a fast-growing platform as a service that is attracting application developers and enterprise workloads to the cloud. Our team is responsible for mission critical functions such as point in time restore, default disaster recovery and long-term retention for millions of databases. This is a great opportunity to learn and work on the internals of enterprise class relational database engines, solve hard problems and build a highly-scalable and reliable data service. You will be working in an environment where innovation is valued and will have an opportunity for direct impact on functionality, scalability, security, performance, manageability and supportability of the Azure SQL Database service. We need collaborative developers who can think big and find creative ways to meet these challenges. Come join us in the Azure Data SQL India team!
Azure SQL Platform is guided by a visionary and transformative mission to revolutionize cloud database management and deliver the platform, service, and features, for running the world’s most critical workloads for millions of customers worldwide. We are looking for a Software Engineer with strong engineering skills to join the team. You will have an opportunity to shape and build the next generation of SQL platform designed for 100x customer and request volume.
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, implement and maintain services and components that provide secure and resilient platform for SQL control plane and data plane services.
- Develop innovative technology for managing massive-scale operations for large customers tolerating underlying system failures, software and hardware upgrades and reconfiguration, while enabling optimal placement and utilization of Azure clusters and regions.
- Design and implement solutions for cluster expansions at a global scale, analyze telemetry and the behavior of large distributed systems to mine actionable insights.
- Ensure the highest standards of quality and reliability across all services and solutions.
- Contribute to design of service software stack, datacenter design and network topology.
- Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability, and compliance requirements
- Research and adopt modern technology to improve quality of the service, increase customer value or reduce operating cost Participate in on-call rotation for the team
Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
**Required/Minimum Qualifications **
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline
- 7+ years of programming experience in C, C#, C++
- Proficiency in troubleshooting and debugging
- 4+ years of commercial systems level software development experience
**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
- Experience with cloud infrastructure
- Experience with large scale distributed systems, hypervisor, multithreading and object-oriented programming
- Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes
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.**