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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.
Job Responsibility:
Build, mentor, and retain a high‑performing team of engineers
Drive career growth, performance management, and a culture of technical excellence and accountability
Coach senior engineers to operate with scope and ownership
develop future technical and people leaders
Partner with Product Managers, SRE, capacity, hardware, and platform teams to align priorities and execution
Represent the team in technical reviews, planning forums, and stakeholder discussions
Gain an understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users & customers
Contribute to current/upcoming product improvements that have key performance deliverables solutions in collaboration with teammates
Collaborate with OEMs partners in analyzing SQL performance on modern h/w technologies and showcasing product performance for technical marketing deliverables (benchmarks, white papers, demos, etc.)
Look into emerging and upcoming Azure SKUs and technologies and exploring new ideas to drive product improvements (hardware/software/config/COGS). This will also include modelling, competitive analysis & benchmarks
Strengthen the engineering process to make sure that cloud deployments (software & hardware) are done in the most efficient way and meet the targeted perf/scale/SLA goals
Identify improvements in supportability that enable performance analysis with a focus on cloud and on-prem platforms
Stay educated on existing and state of the art technologies, and do POCs to evaluate technology fits for customer needs
Embody our culture and values
Requirements:
Minimum 12+ years of programming experience in C/C++/C#/Java/Python
5+ years of experience leading engineering teams or technical groups
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics
Track record of successfully leading end-to-end engineering projects from conception to delivery across multiple ship cycles
Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products
Track record of collaborating effectively with multiple cross-functional teams across geographies
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Extensive and specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Database/OS internals, Hardware knowledge (CPU/System/Networking/Storage), and Cloud related technologies
Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
Great curiosity and willingness to question, undaunted by hard technical problems
7+ years of experience designing and developing production quality software using C/C++
Proven experience in improving product performance
Experience in both Windows and Linux system performance tools