Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

92840804

relational databaseand we are growing rapidly. We are operating hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide, with millions of databases in over 40 regions. In the past few years, Azure SQL DB brought revolutionary capabilities to the market that span database insights, auditing, performance optimization, encryption, accidental and disaster recovery, regional fault tolerance, as well as a spectrum of features that deeper integrate with Azure platform, providing truly end-to-end solutions. Our team pushes the limits of technology to exceed requirements of the most demanding data applications in the industry.

Large enterprises and SaaS providers are migrating to Microsoft Azure bringing large volume of data and manageability requirements. Azure SQL DB Control Plane is processing billions of REST API calls every month with predictable SLA and 100% consistency, tolerating underlying system failures, software and hardware upgrades and reconfiguration. It orchestrates complex workflows spanning multiple services in Azure and within Azure SQL DB clusters. Customers expect 100% availability and instant elasticity of databases that scale up and down with demand, regardless of their size.

Azure SQL DB Control Plane hasbold and ambitious vision. We are looking for a passionate,and experienced engineer withstrong designskills to join the team. You will have an opportunity to shape and build the next generation of Control Plane platform designed for 100x customer and request volume growth, create new technology that enables placement and optimal capacity utilization within a cluster and a region, design and implement solution for management at massive scale for large customers, mine insights from telemetry and behavior of large distributed systems, and learn and contribute to design of service software stack, datacenter design and network topology.

candidate should have:

• Good analytical skills and learn quickly
• Passion to pursue inefficiencies and bugs across software layers and organizational boundaries
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results in fast-paced environment

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline
• 8+ years of programming experience in Java OR C++ OR C OR C# object-oriented programming
• Native Windows development experience is a bonus (stack and heap management, threads, synchronization, and debugging)
• Knowledge of how web works (REST API)
• Experience and understanding in building highly available, highly scalable, reliable, distributed systems is an advantage

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of software development, Object-orientedprogrammingand design patterns
• 8+ years of experience with backend, storage, or database development in distributed systems environment.
• Great curiosity and willingness to question
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment.
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, and the next partner
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes
• Experience with distributed systems
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers
• Strong design,implementationand communication skills.
• Good knowledge of SQL is a strong plus
• Prior experience in Cloud service offering is a strong plus
• Knowledge of building a secure service and understanding of cloud computing paradigms
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement,testandoperateservices and components
• Build andmaintainpartnership between our team and teams operating services upstream and downstream
• Establish customer connections and build insights into their business to feed back into design
• Mentor and grow junior members of the team
• Partner with Program Management,architectsand leaders to define requirements, scope projects andvalidatesolutions
• Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance,scalabilityand compliance requirements
• Research and adoptnew technologyto improve quality of the service, increase customer value or reduce operating cost
• Participate in on-call rotation for the team