New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft 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.Azure SQL DB Control Plane is guided by a visionary and transformative mission to revolutionize cloud database management and deliver the platform, products, and experiences for running the world's most critical workloads. We are looking for a Software Engineer with strong engineering skills to join our team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape and build the next generation of the Control Plane Platform, designed to support 100x growth in customer and request volume. You will:Design, implement and maintain reliable & scalable services for managing massive-scale management operations for large customers.Develop innovative technology to enable optimal placement and utilization of Azure clusters and regions.Analyze telemetry and the behavior of large distributed systems to mine actionable insights.Ensure the highest standards of quality and reliability across all services and solutions.Contribute to the design of service software stacks, datacenter architecture, and network topology.This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies, tackle complex challenges, and collaborate with a highly skilled and diverse global team. 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. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities Design, implement, test, and operate services and components and participate in on-call rotation for the team.Build and maintain partnership 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 members of the team.Partner with Program Management, architects, and leaders to define requirements, scope projects and validate solutions.Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.Research and adopt modern technology to improve quality of the service, increase customer value or reduce operating cost.Embody our culture and values | |