Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 20, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 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 tobuild 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. In the cloud-based world, running our Azure service reliably and efficiently is key to Microsoft's growth and future. Azure SQL is one of the biggest services hosted by Azure. Together we build on Azure's phenomenal growth and success. We are building trustworthy telemetry infrastructure and analytics to help us keep the service running smoothly, prevent and reduce outages and increase customer satisfaction. In constantly improving our scalability, reliability and security, we aim to monitor our large-scale service in real time, reduce noise in the system and have auto tuning solutions and self-remediation via bots. We are building AI-powered, intelligent and smart diagnostics infrastructure to auto detect and fix problems that our customers face with their Azure resources. It involves building large scale low latency distributed service, building framework for adding diagnostics to make inferences, and using intelligence to predict problems. The goal is to build services that delights our customers, solves their problems as quickly as possible and prevent them proactively. We collaborate with data scientists on innovative solutions to improve customer experience with Azure SQL by leveraging this telemetry data and pipeline in new ways. This is a position with opportunity for high visibility projects across the Azure SQL and high impact in increasing service scalability. We are a tight-knit team who values diversity, collaboration and learning from each other. We are committed to be data driven, agile and continuously improving customer experience. We want to truly understand customer requirements and deliver solutions that not only satisfy their needs but exceed their expectations. If that sounds like the right environment for you, please join us! 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.
Responsibilities Provide project leadership, technical guidance, quality oversight, and direct code contributions.Deliver complete features, services, infrastructure, or solutions. This includes design, implementation, testing, deployment, and live-site monitoring.Nurture an inclusive environment, with an emphasis on respect, integrity, and accountabilityInvest in the professional development of your team members to help them meet their career objectives and improve their capabilities to deliver greater business value year-over-year.Champion engineering fundamentals, quality and live-site excellence.Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a scenario. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.Develop deep relationships and exhibit technical leadership across teams within Microsoft.Embody our culture and values | |