Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database are world-class relational database systems widely used across the globe on everything from small devices and servers to some of the largest cloud deployments in the world, attracting application developers and enterprise workloads alike to the cloud. Azure SQL Database is looking for junior and senior engineers to be part of the ongoing journey to disrupt the database space with innovative features that get shipped in products as well as get published in premium conferences like VLDB, SIGMOD. Our team is responsible for mission critical functions such as High Availability, Migration, Storage and Data Integrity for millions of databases. This is a great opportunity to learn and work on the internals of enterprise class relational database engines, solve hard problems and build a highly-scalable and reliable data service. You will be working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability and supportability of the Azure SQL Database service. Join us to help us advance the state of the art in Database Systems.

Responsibilities

In this role you will design and develop features in one or more areas such as distributed high availability, geographical redundancy, logging and recovery, transactions, versioning, database structures such as b-trees and heaps, and many other areas of a large scale database service. Curiosity and willingness to question and learn, strong customer empathy, and willingness to participate in a live site oncall rotation are additional responsibilities.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or in place of 1+ years of internship or 1+ years of industry engineering experience
• 1+ years of commercial systems level software development experience
• Proficiency in C#, C++, troubleshooting and debugging

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with relational database internals and storage systems
• Experience with large scale distributed systems, multithreading and object oriented programming
• Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes

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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.

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