Software Engineer: PhD, Full Time Opportunities

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

The Azure SQL Database service has millions of databases under its management. With this unprecedented growth come exciting technical challenges at scales previously unimaginable. These problems span from a wide range of software engineering areas like core database systems (query processing, transaction processing, efficient locking, storage management), operating systems capabilities (scheduling, memory management, synchronization, resource governance), highly distributed systems (availability, geo-replication, disaster recovery, backup & restore, modern scale-out architectures), and networking systems (protocol design, SDNs, high-performance transports like RDMA).  

At Microsoft, Software Engineers (SWE) explore their passions about customer experience and product quality to solve problems and build innovative software solutions, while collaborating with and providing technical guidance to Technical Program Managers and Product Managers, as they consider the user’s needs and product requirements. You will also have the opportunity to demonstrate an ability to learn and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods, and processes to leverage in your solutions.  As a SWE, you are dedicated to design, development and testing of next-generation software which will empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.    

Those hired into this role are invited to participate in the Microsoft Aspire Experience, a two-year learning and development program in which you'll build your network, cultivate intentional capabilities, and gain perspective into the career opportunities across Microsoft’s many exciting businesses.

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, code, test, and develop features that will improve the SQL DB service offerings ensuring quality, maintainability, and end-to-end ownership.  
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
     

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive and specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Database systems, Operating systems (OS) internals, Distributed Storage systems, Software Defined
  • Networking (SDN) technologies and Cloud architecture. Native Windows development experience is a bonus (stack and heap management, threads, synchronization, debugging)
• Previous experience designing and developing high-performance and production quality C++ or C#/Java server software.
• Experience related to Software Engineering skills covering design/development/usage of performance workloads/test-suites/tools to measure, analyze and root cause reliability, performance, and scalability issues in the product.
• Hands-on experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies).
   

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is U