Software Engineer II

Microsoft

2h

About The Position

Microsoft 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 looking to hire a Software Engineer II, we are 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 team's work focuses on cluster orchestration, usually a part of the “control plane” of cloud systems, and, is related to SQL DB’s tight integration with Microsoft’s Service Fabric cloud orchestrator (the same class of system as Kubernetes). Service Fabric is an orchestrator used internally and externally for the smallest next-gen container microservices, to the multi-billion dollar business that is Azure Data. The problem at hand is broadly a distributed systems problem as well as a pure search and constraint solving algorithms problem. The successful candidate will need an eye towards designing and building a high performance, highly reliable, search and constraint solver that will stand the test of time (years and years). The complexity of the component interaction graph and dependencies that are taken on this search optimizer (placement and load balancing) are substantial but justified due its mission critical nature.
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.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ 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. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.​
• Demonstrate systems engineering skills and tendencies, generally in unmanaged code such as C++.
• Skills in replica quorum, transactional semantics, distributed consensus are a part of the day-to-day work.
• Demonstrate solid background in algorithms, particularly search space traversal and pruning.​

Responsibilities

• Participate in all stages of our cloud offering lifecycle - from initial research, discovery, data science, solution prototyping, development, testing, debugging, all the way through deployment to stage, production and operation readiness.
• You will have the opportunity to wear multiple hats to demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership.
• Placement and load-balancing is a complex and highly sensitive area where even one change in the algorithms and policies can have immediate and impactful changes to customer experience as well as the economics of the business.
• Close ties with Microsoft Research means that this position will afford opportunities to make externally visible research impact.
• We are looking for someone to help determine and build the next generation of algorithms and software for this crucial area of Azure SQL DB.
• Embody our culture and values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees