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 Business, Azure Event Grid, and Power Business Intelligence (BI). Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of Artificial Intelligence (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 Open Source Software (OSS) offerings.

Join our dynamic team, as a Senior Software Engineer at Azure Database for PostgreSQL, one of Microsoft Azure's latest additions to its exceptional lineup of relational database services. We are expanding the choice of database services in Azure and need your help to meet our customers’ demand. Our team is part of Database Systems organization and building the PostgreSQL service on the common platform supporting all relational database workloads and leveraging the scale of our global presence in all Azure datacenters.

With the services growing, we would like to provide our customers with the best management experience they could have. We are looking for people passionate about tackling the breadth of issues coming from running online services, such as improving availability, scalability, query performance and processing, storage and networking optimizations, operating systems integration, and more. You will collaborate across boundaries with partner teams to create compelling first-party integrations for Open Source Database provided on Azure. If you would like to help us make Azure the best place to run OSS database workloads, please let us know.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver incredible user experiences.
• Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping.
• Work closely with other disciplines to shape the product
• Demonstrate the ability to learn quickly, be self-directed, and work well with other people
• Foster a culture of being agile, innovative, team-oriented and customer-focused
• Mentor and teach engineers across the team to improve technical/architecture/troubleshooting skills and scale sharing knowledge through improved documentation and training

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience with TypeScript
  
  

Other Requirements

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

• Problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting ski