Senior Software Engineer

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.

The Azure Data SQL Server Team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for technology, performance and helping customers succeed on our platform by building the next set of industry-leading features and capabilities. You have an opportunity to work on core Azure SQL Database capabilities with a focus on driving product performance and reducing TCO.

We seek engineers who have experience in operating systems, secure enclaves, persistent memory technologies, performance and scalability on Windows . Together with the team you will define and implement the next set of technologies, build new solutions and enable a new set of experiences for enterprise and cloud.

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.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Identifying and driving prototype projects for quick evaluation of design ideas while contributing to current and future product improvements around performance (perf/scale/SLA), through: Design reviews, perf investigation/analysis, prototyping and productizing code, and writing or enhancing performance tests.
• Providing technical leadership and helping build performance engineering skills across the organization.
• Identifying and driving characterization projects to understand new scenarios and the impact of emerging technologies on product performance.
• Looking into emerging and upcoming Azure HW SKUs and technologies, exploring new ideas to drive product improvements (hardware/software/config/COGS). Also includes modeling, competitive analysis & benchmarks.
• 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.
• Collaborating with and supporting OEMs in showcasing product performance for technical marketing deliverables (benchmarks, white papers, demos, etc).

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical