Software Engineer II

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Hyderabad, TS, IN · Software Engineering

Software Engineer II role on the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team, focusing on improving availability, scalability, query performance, storage, and networking optimizations for operational databases. The team's mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering data-first applications and driving a data culture. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, test planning and automation, code creation and maintenance, and live service operations.

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. Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Incorporates appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.
  2. Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests). Adds new tests, removes antiquated tests, and aggregates tests to improve tests in the feature area. Helps to drive efforts for augmenting test cases and ensures that the solution area has good test coverage. Helps to integrate automation features when planning for testing.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 2+ years technical engineering experience
  • coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

Nice to have

  • Professional experience with at least one relational database systems
  • Deep systems background with strong fundamentals in OS and databases
  • Experience building and shipping production grade software or services

What the JD emphasized

  • operational Databases
  • live service
  • live site services