Overview

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 products our portfolio include 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 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.

The Metrics Infrastructure team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help us build the foundational layer of the Time Series Database for Azure Monitor.
We design and operate systems that deliver near-real-time telemetry and health insights for Microsoft services and countless customer workloads hosted on Azure. Our mission is to continuously raise the bar on reliability and scalability, ensuring rapid, dependable visibility into service behavior at global scale.
We embrace a fast-paced, startup-like culture focused on shipping early and often, with a strong emphasis on attention to detail, introspection, and accountability. Collaboration is at the heart of our team. We build on each other’s ideas and empower engineers to innovate from the ground up, delivering world-class value at speed.

What we build:

* Low-latency data ingestion and processing pipelines.
* Highly scalable, resilient microservices hosted in the cloud.
* Availability indicators, monitoring, and auto-mitigation software.
* Deployment and operational tooling.

If you’re passionate about building systems that power Azure’s observability and health at hyperscale, and thrive in an environment that values creativity, collaboration, and technical excellence, we’d love to hear from you.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

As a senior member of our team, you will lead design and code reviews across feature areas and participate in all stages of our engineering lifecycle (initial research and discovery, quick iteration on promising concepts, solution prototyping and development, deployment and live site support).

Developers in the team are expected to wear multiple hats and demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership.
You will work with multiple partner teams and deploy across all Azure regions.

This position is for someone who is:

• Passionate about distributed systems and planetary scale services.
• Enjoys the challenge of pushing big data on near real-time latencies.
• Looks to drive innovation within a product and become an industry leader.
• Loves new technological challenges and excels at solving them.
• Excels at identifying bottlenecks and engineering solutions for performance sensitive data pipelines.
• Writes well-crafted, well-tested, readable and maintainable code.
• Participates in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge.
• Shares knowledge by giving tech talks, and evangelizing appropriate tech and engineering best practices.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Senior Software Engineer (Azure Data)

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