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Be among the first 25 applicants. 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 portfolio includes 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 a 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. We are the Azure SQL Database Storage/IO resource governance team, part of Microsoft Azure’s C+ AI organization. Our team ensures high-efficiency operations while interacting with storage that persists with data. We govern IO resources to optimize performance, while ensuring equitable and fair distribution across customers, hardware, offerings, etc. We aim to maintain QoS with respect to latency and bandwidth, and help customers select the right storage medium based on need and historical usage, moving toward the right storage tier with minimal downtime, and analyzing workload for efficient storage utilization. Azure SQL has a very large number of databases and storage resources; our team ensures efficient functioning on all parameters across services. We leverage SQL’s state-of-the-art management system, a sophisticated engine, and telemetry to make informed decisions. With unprecedented growth comes added complexity in our database storage ecosystem. As a Principal Software Engineer, this is your opportunity to take on a challenge to build and improve database storage infra with cutting-edge technologies. This team is on a mission to define and deliver a world-class storage infra for relational databases, positioning infrastructure as a differentiator for customer value and business margins. We value diverse perspectives and seek them out to tap into the collective power of everyone in the company, so our customers are better served. Responsibilities
Stay updated on recent trends in the database world focusing on storage, networking, reliability, scalability, and security. Be open to experimenting with promising trends in these areas that might open avenues of growth in SQL DB. Provide guidance and mentor other engineers, enabling them to succeed in the team and space. Conduct code reviews that help shape and steer the team’s coding guidelines. Develop deep insights into customer utilization of their databases and resources available. Employ reliable analytical skills to build flexible infrastructure to learn, and model, current and future database resource consumption, while efficiently running business scenarios to replicate changes in service architecture and its effect on usage patterns. Identify opportunities to maximize utilization of the underlying storage service we provision for our customers. Focus on building the necessary storage infrastructure and models (with telemetry) to inform decisions regarding SQL DB storage infrastructure. Ensure service viability and success with understanding of various business and engineering factors, including adoption of different SQL DB offerings, customer usage patterns, and resource/IO limits of clusters and Azure Storage service. Be a trusted influencer in SQL DB’s business strategy when it comes to COGS and gross margins. Opportunity to contribute to a capability that hasn’t existed in the business before. Embod y our culture and values. Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of experience in building and operating a cloud service. 4+ years of experience with at-scale distributed systems, and/or data analytics and relevant data systems at the Petabytes+ scale. Other Requirements
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 Microsoft Cloud Background Check: this position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred/Additional Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience. Two or more of the following are preferred, but not required: 6+ years of proficiency with C++, and/or C#, and knowledge of SQL Understands the reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and debuggability requirements in a large cloud system 6+ years of experience with testing (performance, stress, fault injection testing) 6+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 28, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azdat #azuredata #databases #cloud #sql #storage #azure
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Be among the first 25 applicants. 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 portfolio includes 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 a 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. We are the Azure SQL Database Storage/IO resource governance team, part of Microsoft Azure’s C+ AI organization. Our team ensures high-efficiency operations while interacting with storage that persists with data. We govern IO resources to optimize performance, while ensuring equitable and fair distribution across customers, hardware, offerings, etc. We aim to maintain QoS with respect to latency and bandwidth, and help customers select the right storage medium based on need and historical usage, moving toward the right storage tier with minimal downtime, and analyzing workload for efficient storage utilization. Azure SQL has a very large number of databases and storage resources; our team ensures efficient functioning on all parameters across services. We leverage SQL’s state-of-the-art management system, a sophisticated engine, and telemetry to make informed decisions. With unprecedented growth comes added complexity in our database storage ecosystem. As a Principal Software Engineer, this is your opportunity to take on a challenge to build and improve database storage infra with cutting-edge technologies. This team is on a mission to define and deliver a world-class storage infra for relational databases, positioning infrastructure as a differentiator for customer value and business margins. We value diverse perspectives and seek them out to tap into the collective power of everyone in the company, so our customers are better served. Responsibilities
Stay updated on recent trends in the database world focusing on storage, networking, reliability, scalability, and security. Be open to experimenting with promising trends in these areas that might open avenues of growth in SQL DB. Provide guidance and mentor other engineers, enabling them to succeed in the team and space. Conduct code reviews that help shape and steer the team’s coding guidelines. Develop deep insights into customer utilization of their databases and resources available. Employ reliable analytical skills to build flexible infrastructure to learn, and model, current and future database resource consumption, while efficiently running business scenarios to replicate changes in service architecture and its effect on usage patterns. Identify opportunities to maximize utilization of the underlying storage service we provision for our customers. Focus on building the necessary storage infrastructure and models (with telemetry) to inform decisions regarding SQL DB storage infrastructure. Ensure service viability and success with understanding of various business and engineering factors, including adoption of different SQL DB offerings, customer usage patterns, and resource/IO limits of clusters and Azure Storage service. Be a trusted influencer in SQL DB’s business strategy when it comes to COGS and gross margins. Opportunity to contribute to a capability that hasn’t existed in the business before. Embod y our culture and values. Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of experience in building and operating a cloud service. 4+ years of experience with at-scale distributed systems, and/or data analytics and relevant data systems at the Petabytes+ scale. Other Requirements
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 Microsoft Cloud Background Check: this position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred/Additional Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience. Two or more of the following are preferred, but not required: 6+ years of proficiency with C++, and/or C#, and knowledge of SQL Understands the reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and debuggability requirements in a large cloud system 6+ years of experience with testing (performance, stress, fault injection testing) 6+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: ;br Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 28, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azdat #azuredata #databases #cloud #sql #storage #azure
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