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 in 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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.​

​​Microsoft builds a world-class SQL engine with decades of innovation that is used in SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and our cloud analytics scale-out SQL offering Azure Synapse offering data warehouses storing hundreds of terabytes of data. Building of these mission-critical systems require world class engineering systems that allow rapid development so innovation can reach the customers fast. It also requires reliable infrastructure and product features so that bits can reliably flow from development branches all the way to production with high quality.

This role is for a team named “DW Swift” which is a full-stack team within the Synapse SQL DW. The immediate focus of the team will be to deliver next-gen SaaS Enterprise Data Warehouse. This involves making core changes in the product and the systems around it to be able to rapidly and predictably release the product and with high quality and agility. You will have the opportunity to define and implement next-generation product experiences and work on industry-leading, ground-breaking innovation in areas such as: delivering high value product features and experiences, high availability, next-gen deployment, engineering systems, quality focused product design etc. The work will span custom Synapse Analytics components as well as the SQL Server code base.

We are a tight-knit team who value diversity, collaboration and learning from each other. We are committed to be data driven, agile development and delivering a great customer experience. If that sounds like the right environment for you please join us!

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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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications  

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

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 

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
•  Experience in building distributed systems and shipping enterprise-class systems software  
• Proven track record in delivering reliable, scalable and highly-performant end-to-end solutions  
• Excellent communication and demonstrated ability to drive cross-team improvements  
• Experience developing and managing scalable cloud services  
• Hands-on engineering experience developing and managing scalable cloud services across technologies such as Azure, AWS or GCP​

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• ​​Develop and maintain highly reliable services that enable users to interact with complex large-scale data
• Design, develop and maintain highly reliable engineering systems and infrastructure that enable building world class products
• Work with a large set of engineers across orgs and teams to troubleshoot issues, find root causes and bring them to closure
• Support development teams and internal stakeholders by maintaining and running tight and efficient engineering systems and services
• Partner with stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical leads) to define product requirements and create technical designs for future product capabilities
• Collaborate with, mentor, and influence members within the team and across other teams at Microsoft
• Lead by example in producing extensible and maintainable code with a focus on security, reliability, diagnosability, and performance
• Lead design discussions with the team and share learnings from investigations, holding ownership for design decisions
• Contribute to the product vision, roadmap, architecture, and planning
• Participate in on-call rotation for maintaining service health 
• Embody our culture and values