Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 18 days ago
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OverviewMicrosoft 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 tobuild 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 rapidly growing Azure PostgreSQL Database Services team at Microsoft and we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who has experience and are excited about building large scale managed database cloud services. If you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge, cloud-scale distributed systems technologies and are passionate about developing fault tolerant, performant, self-managing, self-healing, secure services hosting mission critical customer workloads and operated on a massive scale, this role is for you! A brief introduction to our team: We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers. We are obsessed with customers and make data-driven decisions using telemetry collected from customers and production systems. We look for opportunities to use existing technologies and open source and are committed to contributing back to the open-source code bases and community. We take the time to build platforms and tools that are robust and help practice our craft efficiently and effectively. We value passion, creativity, agility, accountability, team collaboration and the desire to learn new, complex technical areas. We foster a diverse and inclusive work culture that always prioritizes people. 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. This is a great opportunity to be part of a very agile team, tackle hard distributed system problems, solve breathtakingly challenging problems, and ship high impact features at a rapid pace. As an engineer in our team, you will have an opportunity to design and build a massively scalable PostgreSQL database hosting service using the latest technologies in relational databases, computing, and container hosting. You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, and customer advocates across Azure and Microsoft to deliver high-quality features and solutions that solve customer problems and create business value. You will be able to apply your critical thinking, problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills to help build these services. You will have the chance to influence the evolution of PostgreSQL database engine and the next generation of database hosting platform for Microsoft. You will get to work on solving some of the most difficult and complex problems in the relational database systems and distributed systems space, with a highly motivated and passionate team. You will have the opportunity to work with vibrant team of open-source committers and contributors to develop deep relationships with open-source communities with high impact on Microsoft's data business. 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.
ResponsibilitiesWorking with a team of software engineers to design, develop, test, and deploy high quality cloud services using agile methodologies and best practices. Providing technical guidance, feedback, and mentorship to your team members and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and customer focus Partnering with other teams across Azure and Microsoft to onboard common initiatives and adopt best practices from other teams. Managing the operational excellence, security, reliability, and scalability of the Azure PostgreSQL service. Embody our culture and values

 

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