Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

186263725

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• 8 years’ experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production D atabase systems such as Postgres and Oracle
• 5 years’ experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL relational databases
• 5 years’ experience in systems engineering, including database performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting
• 5 years’ experience working directly with customers, resolving database/ performance related issues and providing systems/ database architecture leadership
• Awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability
• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl)

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• ​​Experience working with customers and diverse workloads and is a subject matter expert in database management and performance
• Subject matter expert in performance tuning
• Software consulting experience
• Working knowledge of at least one application programming language (Python, Java, C#, C, C++, Go)
• Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, PL/Pg SQL, T-SQL etc.)

Other Requirements

to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsfor this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

• This position will berequiredto pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• ​​You work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices
• You, acting as the “voice of the customer”, bring learnings to the engineering process to design new features. By shaping the direction of the Azure Postgres products, you make it easier to understand how our service is used by customers, including database developers and administrators
• You are viewed as the ultimate subject matter expertise for all things databases as your work will be highly sought by the development team, the support team, the account team and customers directly
• You will interact with the open-source community via forums and conferences
• Embody our