Software Engineer II

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +1 · Software Engineering

Software Engineer II role on the Azure PostgreSQL team, focusing on relational database engine innovations like query processing, transaction logging, and distributed systems. The role involves contributing to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux, developing extensions, and maintaining live services. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding.

What you'd actually do

  1. Works with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of features.
  2. Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others.
  3. Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests).
  4. Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code.
  5. Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues and complex issues when applicable impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary.
  6. Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features. Uses open source when possible.

Skills

Required

  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Computer Science degree or related technical field
  • 2+ years technical engineering experience

Nice to have

  • developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system
  • building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade
  • internals of PostgreSQL or similar Enterprise Database Management system, including Storage Engine and High Availability
  • building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • distributed systems

What the JD emphasized

  • mission-critical
  • AI enabled operational Databases
  • relational database engine
  • Query processing
  • Transaction logging and recovery
  • Versioning
  • IO subsystems
  • Scale-out and Distributed systems
  • open-source PostgreSQL
  • Linux
  • extensions
  • enterprise production backend server system
  • distributed cloud services
  • Enterprise Database Management system
  • Storage Engine
  • High Availability
  • Distributed Systems with strong guarantees