Software Engineer-2

Overview: 

Do you want to join a world-class engineering team in India and work on hard technical challenges? Are you interested to work in a globally distributed team with an exceptional record of innovation and execution that has made us one of the largest businesses within Microsoft? If yes, keep reading.

Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database are world-class relational database systems widely used across the globe on everything from small devices and servers to some of the largest cloud deployments in the world. The amount of data being generated in the world is soaring. With this dramatic growth, the importance of the data platform continues to grow tremendously. Customers need rich data services that provide deep insights from data. All of this must be done while supporting high availability, predictability and elasticity; Supporting 100 terabytes of data; ability to both scale up and scale out; supporting 1000’s of users on a single machine; or a complex SQL query that utilizes 1000’s of cores. Does this sound like an interesting problem? If yes, talk to us in the SQL team. We aspire to build the world’s best data management Cloud platform and transform how people use databases.

This is an opportunity to work in a diverse and collaborative team on extremely challenging technical problems. The challenges span the entire stack of database technology: programming language, query processing, storage & distributed systems. We incorporate the latest academic research and leverage the benefits of modern hardware advancements with a goal of supporting some of the largest databases on the planet and bring record-breaking query performance capabilities and ease of management to them.

Qualifications:

 Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD with work or research experience in computer science or related field.
• 6+ years of programming experience in C++ OR C# OR Java

Preferred Qualifications:

• Sound problem-solving skills with strong system sensibilities
• Proficient in C++/C#/Java or other high-level languages.
• Good understanding of database system internals, query processing, storage systems.
• Experience in building and shipping production grade software or services.
• High enthusiasm, integrity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness.
• Work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions, celebrate successes.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.

Responsibilities:

As an engineer in the Hyperscale team in Azure SQL Database, you will work on the latest technology in compute and storage, apply innovative algorithms for solving database, computing, and storage problems at scale and with high performance. We need collaborative developers who can think big and find creative ways to meet these challenges.Come join us in the Azure Data SQL India team!