Senior Software Engineer

Overview:

Are you passionate about Database Technology and Cloud Computing and fascinated by challenges such as optimizing the management of millions of databases across a wide price/performance spectrum?

Microsoft Database Platform delivers world class relational database technologies used across the globe on everything from small devices, desktops and servers to some of the largest Cloud deployments in the world. Our data platform powers innovation in every industry, facilitates breakthrough scientific and medical research, and underpins intelligent applications that are changing the way we live. Enterprise customers are using these platforms to disrupt markets and transform their existing businesses. Today Microsoft is considered a leader when it comes to innovation in data platform capabilities. 

We are operating hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide with millions of databases in over 50 Azure regions. Our products push the limits of technology to exceed requirements of the most demanding data applications in the world, and our teams love solving these planet scale high impact challenges.

With this unprecedented growth comes added complexity in our hardware ecosystem, at scales we never imagined before. This is your opportunity to take on a challenge and join Azure Data SQL Performance Engineering & Hardware team  from the ground up. This team is on a mission to deliver the world class, cost effective, & high-performance operational database for On-Prem and Cloud platform running on modern h/w technology.

We are a small but diverse team of people with various views, backgrounds and beliefs. We invest in each other’s success and respect each other. We work at all layers of the technology stack and have both technically deep and broad challenges. If that sounds exciting to you, then the Data Platform Performance Engineering & Hardware team could be a great place to call home. 

We are hiring software engineers to help design and implement the technologies that will enable Microsoft to tackle a new set of enterprise and cloud problems.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of programming experience in C/C++/C#/Java/Python.
• 5+ years of experience related to Performance Engineering skills covering design/development/usage of performance workloads/Tools to measure, analyze and root cause performance and scalability issues in the product.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics.
• Track record of successfully leading end-to-end engineering projects from conception to delivery across multiple ship cycles
• Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
• Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products
• Track record of collaborating effectively with multiple cross-functional teams across geographies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive and specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Database/OS internals, Hardware knowledge (CPU/System/Networking/Storage), and Cloud related technologies.
• Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Great curiosity and willingness to question, undaunted by hard technical problems.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing production quality software using C/C++.
• Proven experience in improving product performance.
• Experience in both Windows and Linux system performance tools.
• MS in CS/CSE/EE or related discipline.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with a passion for technology and for helping customers succeed on our platform by building the next generation high performance database products for cloud and on-prem that will delight our customers. You have an opportunity to work on these technologies (Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines) with a focus on driving product performance, scalability, and reducing TCO. You will have the opportunity to work on scale-up performance of SQL on a single system (1000+ cores, 24TB+ ram, 100 Gbit NIC ...), scale-out performance (SQL big-data clusters with 100+ nodes) and optimization of SQL for Cloud. The optimizations will also aim to fully leverage capabilities in upcoming technologies (new technologies for cloud native databases, new processor architectures, storage, networking, memory, PCI interface, etc.) in order to deliver better performance and reduce TCO.

Responsibilities include contributions to one or more of the following:

• Contribute to current/upcoming product improvements that have key performance deliverables solutions in collaboration with teammates.
• Collaborate with OEMs partners in analyzing SQL performance on modern h/w technologies and showcasing product performance for technical marketing deliverables (benchmarks, white papers, demos, etc.)
• Look into emerging and upcoming Azure SKUs and technologies and exploring new ideas to drive product improvements (hardware/software/config/COGS). This will also include modelling, competitive analysis & benchmarks.
• Strengthen the engineering process to make sure that cloud deployments (software & hardware) are done in the most efficient way and meet the targeted perf/scale/SLA goals.
• Identify improvements in supportability that enable performance analysis with a focus on cloud and on-prem platforms.
• Provide regular updates to key-stakeholders with respect to the performance analysis/progress/new-findings/status of assigned deliverables.
• Gain an understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users & customers.
• Stay educated on existing and state of the art technologies, and do POCs to evaluate technology fits for customer needs.
• Grow and mentor junior developers.