Software Engineer II

Summary

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. The Azure Data engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer II to contribute to innovations in relational database engines, focusing on areas such as query processing and transaction logging.

Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of features
• Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others
• Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests)
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues and complex issues when applicable impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary
• Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features. Uses open source when possible

Skills

• 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
• 2+ years of experience in developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system
• 2+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade
• Experience with internals of PostgreSQL or similar Enterprise Database Management system, including Storage Engine and High Availability
• Experience building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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

• 2+ years of experience in developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system
• 2+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade
• Experience with internals of PostgreSQL or similar Enterprise Database Management system, including Storage Engine and High Availability
• Experience building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes