Are you passionate about building state of the art software and accelerating your growth as an engineer? Do you want to work in a world class engineering team with an exceptional record of innovation and execution that has made us one of the largest businesses within Microsoft? If yes, keep reading…

The world is producing and storing more data than ever before. Azure Data Platform team is bringing leading edge innovation to this space to bring limitless data storage to our customers. How would you like to join the Azure Database Migrations team to help customers modernize their databases and applications to leverage this amazing capability at enterprise scale?

Azure Data Platform team delivers world class relational database server technologies used across the globe on everything from small devices, desktops, and servers to some of the largest cloud deployments in the world. Everywhere you look, the amount of data being generated in the world is soaring. With this dramatic growth, the importance of the data platform continues to grow tremendously. Data is at the heart of the Cloud. Winning in the cloud requires an easy, resilient, and seamless migration experience capable of moving data at scale, while supporting high availability, and elasticity. We are building the next generation migration services that would enable customers to migrate from their legacy on-premises systems to Azure data services at scale. Does this sound like an interesting problem? If yes, talk to us. We have made a big bet on our super-successful business winning in the cloud. To do this, we need your help. Our competition is fierce, and our aspirations are bold!

Responsibilities

This is an opportunity to work with some of the best engineers in the industry to build an easy to use, extensible framework that can make migrations to Azure a no brainer for the customers.

We work with teams across Azure to enable and empower our customers to make the transition to cloud. Finally, you will learn what it takes to deploy and run software as a 24x7 enterprise grade cloud service!

This is a Senior Software Engineer position with opportunity for high visibility projects across the Azure Database System Group and high impact in increasing service adoption.

We are a tight-knit team who values diversity, collaboration and learning from each other. We are committed to be data driven and continually improving customer experience. 

We want to truly understand customer requirements and deliver solutions that not only satisfy their needs but exceed their expectations. 

If that sounds like the right environment for you, please join us!

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 6+ years of industry engineering experience
• 8+ years of programming experience writing code in Java, C++, C#, or C or other object-oriented programming language

Preferred Qualifications:

• Curiosity and willingness to question
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment
• Experience developing and managing scalable cloud services
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and distributed systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with proven technical leadership skills