Job Description
About the Role: Azure Database for PostgreSQL is the fastest-growing database services globally, powering mission-critical workloads at scale and rapidly positioning itself as a leader in AI-driven workloads. Over the past two years, this growth has fueled the development of premium, innovative products designed to meet the evolving needs of our customers. What makes this role unique is the team’s combination of the pursuit of API-driven development, cross-product impact across multiple Azure database offerings, and its emerging role as an intelligence hub for product insights, placing it at the center of how experiences are built, measured, and improved across the organization. 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. About the Products: The team is building next-generation data platforms in Azure. This includes Azure HorizonDB, a new cloud-native PostgreSQL service designed for high performance, scalability, and built-in AI capabilities, currently emerging as a key innovation in the space. The team also works on Elastic Clusters for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, enabling applications to scale seamlessly and handle large, distributed datasets. Together, these products give engineers the opportunity to work on impactful systems that power modern, data-intensive and AI-driven applications. About the Team: 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. The Client Experience team in Azure Databases operates at a uniquely strategic layer, owning the interface between backend platform capabilities and all customer-facing surfaces (Portal, CLI, APIs and others). As defined in the current roadmap, the team is evolving into a platform-oriented function that accelerates feature delivery and enables data-driven decision making through telemetry, experimentation, and a Client Experience LLMs. This team offers an outstanding environment for engineers eager to grow their careers — where experimentation, iterative learning, and trying new ideas are not just encouraged, but expected. We’re looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset who is comfortable taking initiative, embracing challenges, and contributing to the creation of cutting-edge solutions.
