Software Engineer - 2

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.​ 

​​​​SQL team is hiring a strong engineer who will design and develop features in the core Storage Engine across areas like logging and recovery, transactions, versioning, database structures such as b-trees and heaps, and many other areas of a large-scale database service. Curiosity and willingness to question and learn, strong customer empathy, and willingness to participate in a 24x7 live site on call rotations are additional responsibilities.  

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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. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or in place of 4+ years of internship or 4+ years of industry engineering experience
• 3+ years of commercial systems level software development experience
• Experience in C++/Systems programming

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with relational database internals and storage systems
• Experience with large scale distributed systems, multithreading and object-oriented programming
• Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes
• Design and development experience in database engine, storage systems, column stores

Responsibilities  :

​​Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.  
• Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems.  
• Experience in systems programming/C/C++  
• Design and development experience in database engine, storage systems, column stores  
• Experience with large scale distributed systems, multithreading and object-oriented programming  
• Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes  
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems  
• Great curiosity and willingness to question  
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment  
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes  
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Embody our culture and values