Overview:

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

​​Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.​

​​Large enterprises and SaaS providers are migrating to Microsoft Azure bringing large volume of data and manageability requirements. Azure SQL DB Control Plane is processing billions of REST API calls every month with predictable SLA and 100% consistency, tolerating underlying system failures, software and hardware upgrades and reconfiguration. It orchestrates complex workflows spanning multiple services in Azure and within Azure SQL DB clusters. Customers expect 100% availability and instant elasticity of databases that scale up and down with demand regardless of their size.

Azure SQL DB Control Plane has a bold and ambitious vision. We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer II with design skills to join the team. You will have an opportunity to shape and build the next generation of Control Plane platform designed for 100x customer and request volume growth, create new technology that enables placement and optimal capacity utilization within a cluster and a region, design and implement solution for management at massive scale for large customers, mine insights from telemetry and behavior of large distributed systems, learn and contribute to design of service software stack, datacenter design and network topology.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• ​​​​Design, implement, test and operate services and components.
• Build and maintain partnership between our team and teams operating services upstream and downstream.
• Establish customer connections and build insights into their business to feed back into design.
• Partner with Program Management, architects and leaders to define requirements, scope projects and validate solutions.
• Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability and compliance requirements.
• Research and adopt new technology to improve quality of the service, increase customer value or reduce operating cost.
• Participate in on-call rotation for the team. ​
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications:

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and understanding in building highly available, highly scalable, reliable, distributed systems
• Knowledge of building a secure service and understanding of cloud computing paradigms
• 2+ years of experience with backend, storage, or database development in distributed systems environment.
• 2+ years experience and understanding in building highly available, highly scalable, reliable, distributed systems

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $85,000 - CAD $166,800 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Software Engineering IC3 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 85,000 $ CAD à 166,800 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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