We are the team defining the future of the Azure Database for MySQL service, as part of the Azure Data group within the C+AI organization.  Azure data teams work at the intersection of cloud, storage, and open-source technologies to solve the pressing challenges of our customers.  Our team is building the next generation elastic scale MySQL as a database service that is designed to run planet-scale applications.  We work with various open-source components such as Kubernetes, Docker Containers, MySQL etc., and we make regular contributions back.  This is your opportunity to be part of a very agile team, take on hard distributed system problems, and ship high impact features at a rapid pace.  If you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge, cloud-scale distributed systems technologies, if you are passionate about developing fault tolerant, performant, manageable, and resilient services that host mission critical customer workloads operated at massive scale, then this role is for you!

Responsibilities

You will be a key member of the engineering team driving critical engineering design of the product. Some of the core responsibilities include designing, owning and shipping software, writing secure, reliable, scalable and maintainable code. Collaborate with other teams for product features that span across teams and geographies, figuring out dependencies and driving them to completion. You should have a solid understanding of the software development cycle. Successful candidates should have the ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies and adopt solution from within the company or from the Open-Source community. In addition, strong problem solving & debugging skills are necessary.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or 8+ years of industry engineering experience
• 8+ years of programming experience in C# OR C++ OR Java OR object-oriented programming
• 3+ years of designing the software product.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience creating and shipping V1 products using modern development practices. 
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).
• Great curiosity and willingness to question.
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment. 
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner.
• 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

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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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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