Software Engineer

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 Data Migration & Modernization team within Azure Data is hiring a Software Engineer. The team is fully located in India and owns the entire migration charter. Database migration is a crucial area that is top of mind for the Azure organization and an area of investment for the team. These set of services are the newest addition of services being built by the team and are driven by the all-important momentum of migrating and modernizing customer workloads from on-premises to Azure. These are high scale hybrid services, and their goal is to help customers migrate their workloads from wherever they are to Azure and modernize on the way.

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

• Write great code with quality, extensibility, simplicity, and maintainability as core tenets.
• Deliver well-tested features across many different services and platforms.
• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis, with emphasis on timely response, delivery & satisfaction for stakeholders.
• Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions.
• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
  
  

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

1+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud service at large scale in C#, C++ or Java. 

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, database products is a plus.

Strong coding, debugging and problem-solving skills.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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 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/Additional Qualifications

NA

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