Senior Software Engineer

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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 the team defining the future of the Azure Database for MySQL service, as part of the Azure Data group within the C+AI organization. Azure data teams work at the intersection of cloud, storage, and open-source technologies to solve the pressing challenges of our customers. Our team is building the next generation elastic scale MySQL as a database service that is designed to run planet-scale applications. We work with various open-source components such as Kubernetes, Docker Containers, MySQL etc., and we make regular contributions back. This is your opportunity to be part of a very agile team, take on hard distributed system problems, and ship high impact features at a rapid pace. If you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge, cloud-scale distributed systems technologies, if you are passionate about developing fault tolerant, performant, manageable, and resilient services that host mission critical customer workloads operated at massive scale, then this role is for you!

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or 8+ years of industry engineering experience
• 8+ years of programming experience in C# OR C++ OR Java OR object-oriented programming
• 3+ years of designing the software product.

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

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience creating and shipping V1 products using modern development practices.
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).
• Great curiosity and willingness to question.
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment.
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner.
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and distributed systems

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You will be a key member of the engineering team driving critical engineering design of the product. Some of the core responsibilities include designing, owning and shipping software, writing secure, reliable, scalable and maintainable code. Collaborate with other teams for product features that span across teams and geographies, figuring out dependencies and driving them to completion. You should have a solid understanding of the software development cycle. Successful candidates should have the ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies and adopt solution from within the company or from the Open-Source community. In addition, strong problem solving & debugging skills are necessary.

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