Job Description:
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 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. Our team builds and maintains database drivers that enable connectivity to SQL Server and other TDS-compliant endpoints. We deliver drivers and integrations across multiple ecosystems, including .NET (C#), Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, and Rust, and we also own higher-level integrations such as Django.This role requires strong technical leadership, deep experience designing developer-facing APIs, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and organizations. You will help drive the future direction of SQL Server client connectivity while continuing to improve reliability, performance, and compatibility across our existing drivers.
