Senior Software Engineer

Overview :

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.​ 

​​​​Azure Data SQL team is hiring for a Senior Software Engineer, who can help shape and build the next generation of technologies to create a state-of-the-art database that supports the next wave of cloud-native modern applications. You will collaborate with our database experts and solve complex problems to improve SQL Server Engine. You would be responsible for developing and delivering features that enable developers to create data-centric applications on Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. In the immediate future you would be working on expanding the feature set of the open source project Data API builder project. https://github.com/Azure/data-api-builder 

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Qualifications 

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

​​Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.​ 

Preferred/Additional Qualifications 

​​Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.​ 

Responsibilities  

​​• Developing and delivering features that enable developers to build data-centric applications on Azure SQL Database and SQL Server.  
• Modernizing Azure SQL DB with new APIs for data retrieval.  
• Building the next set of application developer features for SQL Server such as GraphQL and new T-SQL capabilities.  
• Design, implement, test, and ship features that meet customer needs and business goals.  
• Contribute to code reviews, design reviews, and team discussions.  
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.  
• Troubleshooting live site issues as part of both product development and live site rotations. Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.​ 

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