Software Engineer II

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.

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer II to join our dynamic team at Azure Database for MySQL, one of Microsoft Azure's latest additions to its exceptional lineup of relational database services. As we continue to expand our offering to meet the ever-growing demands of our customers, we are seeking someone who thrives on running online services. As a Software Engineer II, you will help drive increased adoption of the MySQL service by enabling customers to modernize and optimize their MySQL workloads while migrating them to the Azure cloud.

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.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years 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

• Professional experience with at least one relational database system.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience moving and adapting on-premises applications to run in the cloud.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 14, 2024.

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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• Learn about emerging migration techniques while onboarding within a team of supportive engineers who are vested in helping you succeed.
• Help our small team run the Azure Database Migration Service end to end, contributing to any and all components, be it the user interface, the control plane, or the data plane. You will take advantage of a wide variety of growth opportunities while learning at a quick pace.
• Deliver designs and features that will enable the team to engage our customers in new and novel ways, solving the problems that prevent them from running their production MySQL workloads in Azure.
• Operate migration services running in multiple clouds, working with partners in Microsoft support as well as directly with our customers to monitor systems, products, and services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Identify bottlenecks, remove migration blockers, and improve pipeline performance to further improve our best-in-class MySQL migration tooling so it can scale to support the most complex schemas (think 1+ million tables) as well as the largest workloads.
• Other
  • Embody our culture and values