​​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 Fundamentals team focusses on several "service-wide aspects" of this fast-growing service, taking it to the next levels of quality, reliability and release velocity. Imagine building an autonomous and scalable engineering and test systems to take every change through the full quality pipeline and on the end customers worldwide. Imagine implementing the framework for auto-detecting service outages, auto-communicating to impacted customers and auto-mitigating the issue leveraging AI/ML based platforms. These are just a couple of the scenarios. The focus areas of this team span service monitoring/alerting/auto-mitigation platforms, service and customer focused measurement/reporting platforms, live site management and supportability tooling systems, engineering systems, release velocity and management, security/compliance, etc. The team will be driving initiatives that will drastically improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the "whole service" in the above areas and in turn help the wider product team and the end customers.  

In this role, you will internally partner with all the feature and component teams of the service and help them adopt and/or deliver to these focus areas and related goals using the platform/solutions that your team builds. You will act as the point of contact for all Azure wide initiatives/integrations for the service and drive them internally in the team. You have the opportunity to drive architecture evolution of the service for better reliability, scale and COGS. 
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work with a team of experienced engineers in Redmond. The Senior Software Engineer role would be responsible for delivering success in the above-mentioned areas by partnering closely with the counterparts in IDC, the feature teams, the customer support team, leadership team, other sister teams in Azure Data and partner teams in Azure. 

If you are the person who loves to improve the big picture of the ”overall” service quality and customer lived experience, by doing what it takes across many different inner and outer engineering loop focus areas, this is the role for you to make a BIG IMPACT!! 
 
The candidate should also have experience handling service-wide problems like live site management, engineering systems, customer support etc. From a technical point of view, familiarity with database systems and engineering systems is a plus. Familiarity with Azure and Azure Data services is a plus. 
 

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Responsibilities

​​Working with a team of software engineers to design, develop, test, and deploy high quality cloud services using agile methodologies and best practices. 
 
Providing technical guidance, feedback, and mentorship to your team members and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and customer focus 
 
Partnering with other teams across Azure and Microsoft to onboard to common initiatives and adopt best practices from other teams. 
 
Managing the operational excellence, security, reliability, and scalability of the Azure PostgreSQL service. 
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