Software Engineer II

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. 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. 

We are looking to hire Software Development Engineers to join our team. 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 a multitude of applications across various industries. 

Are you passionate about Database Technology and Cloud Computing and fascinated by challenges such as managing millions of databases across a wide price/performance spectrum?  The Azure SQL DB Resource Governance (RG) team is responsible for ensuring a high-quality experience for customers that provision databases that are allocated slices of a single core all the way up to an entire machine.  This wide range in potential resources provisioned (performance) translates to potential revenue that spans pennies to thousands of dollars per day.  Compounding this landscape is the variety of SQL DB offerings which include Serverless (aka pay-for-use). In the Serverless offering we eliminate the need for users to accurately the max size of the SQL container. They specify a theoretical maximum and we scale their resources up and down depending on workload’s demands and charge them for exactly what they use. Our NorthStar is to make Serverless the default and only mainstream offering. 

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. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. 
• Great curiosity and willingness to question, undaunted by hard technical problems. 
• 4+ years of hands-on coding experience shipping products across multiple release cycles 
• Proficiency with C++, and/or C#, solid knowledge of SQL  
• Strong design, implementation and debugging skills. 
• Strong design, implementation, and communication skills.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Demonstrated experience in high-performing engineering teams that work on system software is preferred  
• Working knowledge of a RDBMS engine. 
• Working knowledge of operating systems concepts (scheduling, caching, memory management) is a strong plus. 
• Experience with at-scale distributed systems 
• Experience with large-scale data analytics and appropriate data systems  

Responsibilities 

As a member of this amazing team, you will participate in all stages of our cloud offering lifecycle - from initial research, discovery, data science, solution prototyping, development, testing, debugging, all the way through deployment to stage, production, and operational readiness.  You will have the opportunity to influence the entire stack, from the SQL engine to real time telemetry, to the Service Fabric orchestration system, and to wear multiple hats to demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership. Responsibilities include a) making data-driven decisions on database placement and load-balancing. You will have at your disposal SQL’s advanced and intricate engine, an orchestration system that manages millions of databases around the world, and petabytes of telemetry data, b) increasing the maximum number of databases hosted by SQL, c) extend serverless technology to other Azure SQLDB offerings.