Microsoft · 23 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft 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 Senior Software Engineer to work closely with customers, understand their challenges, and drive the development of AI-enabled operational databases, particularly focusing on Postgres internals and performance tuning.
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Responsibilities
You work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices
You, are 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
Qualification
Required
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. 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
Preferred
Experience working with customers and diverse workloads and is a subject matter expert in database management and performance
Subject matter expert in performance tuning, Postgres database internals
Software consulting experience
8 years' experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems such as Postgres
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)
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.)
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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