Software Engineer II Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Overview:

Microsoft Azure SQL DB is a leader in managed relational database business, and we are growing rapidly. We are operating hundreds of thousands of servers worldwide with millions of databases in over 40 regions. In the past few years Azure SQL DB brought revolutionary capabilities to the market that span database large scale, insights, auditing, performance optimization, encryption, accidental and disaster recovery, regional fault tolerance as well as a spectrum of features that deeper integrate with Azure platform providing truly end-to-end solutions. Our product pushes the limits of technology to exceed requirements of the most demanding data applications in the industry. Large enterprises and SaaS providers are migrating to Microsoft Azure bringing large volume of data and manageability requirements. Lately, we are working on streamlining the experience between on prem SQL deployments and Azure, which is a key investment for the business.

As our platform keeps being an industry leader in innovation and customer value, the SQL Portal and Experiences team is responsible for introducing and delivering the user interaction experience concepts, patterns and capabilities that will make the platform shine in our competitive landscape. Working on this team, you will build a world class user interaction experience for manageability of a wide range of Azure SQL DB offers that is scalable, reliable, intuitive and consistent across different ways of discovering and consuming the capabilities of our platform. You will design and implement beautiful experiences in the Azure portal, contribute to REST API surface area and provide powerful and consistent command line tools. You will have the opportunity to make changes across our technology stack and drive the design and implementation of our lower level components from a customer experience focused point of view. If you are passionate about shaping how users see, learn about and interact with a world class service, this is the place where you can take your career to the next level while following your passion at the same time. You will be empowered to collaborate, influence and learn from many talented engineers, architects, PMs and UX designers that are part of our inclusive and diverse family as well as connect with individual customers in order to build the solutions that best suit their needs.

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or in place of 3+ years of internship or 3+ years of industry engineering experience
* 1+ years of programming experience in Java/JavaScript/C#/C++/C/object-oriented programming

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience with cloud technologies
* Strong written and oral communication skills
* Experience with client-side web related technologies is a plus
* Knowledge of how web works (REST API)
* Strong design, implementation and testing skills Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Responsibilities:

* Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability and compliance requirements
* Write clean well thought out code with attention to details, establish coding standards and integrate them with the team
* Operate the service through telemetry, monitoring and analytics
* Partner with customer support channels to provide the best experience
* Build and maintain partnership between our team and teams operating services across Data Services and Azure ecosystem
* Partner with Program Management, UX designers, architects and leaders to define/understand requirements, scope improvements and validate solutions

We are looking for a software engineer who is:

* Passionate about building UX components (client/API), distributed systems, cloud technology
* Has great analytical skills and learning agility
* Capacity to drill deep through software layers
* Rigor to drive the change and pursue results across teams and disciplines
* Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results in fast-paced environment