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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. Azure PostgreSQL is a fast-growing team within Azure Data at Microsoft, and we are seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join our organization. The team builds and operates a globally distributed, fully managed PostgreSQL service that supports mission-critical customer workloads at scale. We focus on delivering highly reliable, high-performance, and self-healing cloud systems. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy developing scalable services, tackling complex technical problems, and driving meaningful impact while continuing to grow their technical expertise.
Job Responsibility:
Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency of a cloud service
Contribute with fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties
Collaborate with colleagues across the world to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services
Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals
Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems
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 building, testing, and maintaining production-quality software in a collaborative engineering environment
Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and systems fundamentals
Industry experience building and maintaining open-source software (OSS) and working with PostgreSQL
Proficient analytical skills with systematic and structured approaches to software design