Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Multiple Locations)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Multiple Locations

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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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 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. Azure Postgres team is hiring a senior software engineer who has deep knowledge of Postgres internals, performance tuning and has experience working with customers.

Job Responsibility:

Work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices
Acting as the “voice of the customer”, bring learnings to the engineering process to design new features
By shaping the direction of the Azure Postgres products, make it easier to understand how our service is used by customers, including database developers and administrators
Viewed as the ultimate subject matter expertise for all things databases as your work will be highly sought by the development team, the support team, the account team and customers directly
Interact with the open-source community via forums and conferences
Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience
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:

Experience working with customers and diverse workloads and is a subject matter expert in database management and performance
Subject matter expert in performance tuning, Postgres database internals
Software consulting experience
8 years’ experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems such as Postgres
5 years’ experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL relational databases
5 years’ experience in systems engineering, including database performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting
5 years’ experience working directly with customers, resolving database/ performance related issues and providing systems/ database architecture leadership
Awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability
Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl)
Working knowledge of at least one application programming language (Python, Java, C#, C, C++, Go)
Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, PL/Pg SQL, T-SQL etc.)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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