Overview
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As a member of our engineering team within Azure Data group, you will play an integral part in making that happen, navigating us into the future and impacting the lives of people all around the world.
Job Purpose:
Are you passionate about building state of the art software and running it as a service? Do you enjoy debugging and solving complex problems? 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 SQL Database 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 rich data services that provide deep insights from data. All of this must be done while supporting high availability, predictability and elasticity; Supporting 100s of terabytes of data; ability to both scale up and scale out; supporting 1000’s of users on a single machine or a query that utilizes 1000’s of cores. Does this sound like an interesting problem? If yes, talk to us in the SQL team. We have made a big bet on our super-successful business winning in the Cloud. We will win by building the world’s best data management Cloud platform and transforming how people use databases. But to do that, we need your help. Our competition is fierce, and our aspirations are bold!
Running software as a service means more than just developing and releasing features. Ensuring reliability and serviceability is critical part of software cycle. This is where you come into the picture. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will ensure the service of Azure SQL Database or Managed Instance runs smoothly with required reliability and availability. You will design and implement software to automatically resolve issues. You will work closely with feature teams to design, implement and release features that are reliable and serviceable. You will be a cross-domain expert who has a holistic view of our cloud service
This is an opportunity to work with some of the best engineers in the industry to continue to innovate and deliver Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance for the Cloud. The challenges span the entire stack of database technology - connectivity, high availability, programming language, query processing, transaction processing and data management involving 100s of nodes. You will learn what it takes to deploy and run software as a 24x7 enterprise grade cloud service!
We are the Azure Data team which is part of the C+AI Azure organization. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of a very agile team to tackle hard problems involving distributed systems, and service highly impactful features at a rapid pace.