Software Engineer

Microsoft

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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 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.
Team & Context
Org: Azure Data → Databases
Products cited
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure PostgreSQL
DocumentDB (open‑source, PostgreSQL‑based)
DocumentDB combines
Document‑store scalability
Relational reliability
Focus level: modern, document‑oriented, AI‑first workloads
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.

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.
• 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

• Solid experience as a developer
• Experience in C, C++
• Strong understanding of:
• Algorithms
• Systems architecture
• End‑to‑end ownership of complex systemsStrong background in:
• Systems design
• Databases
• Experience in:
• Relational and/or NoSQL database engines
• Ability to work on:
• Query, indexing, and storage subsystems

Responsibilities

• Develop features spanning
• Query engine
• Index structures
• Storage layouts
• Work across PostgreSQL (relational) and Mongo‑compatible (NoSQL) systems
• Collaborate in a geo‑distributed engineering team
• Build mission‑critical operational databases
• Embody our culture and values

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level