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Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Original Job Summary
About the Role
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further in a cloud-enabled world. The Azure Data engineering team is transforming analytics with products like 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.
Team and Mission
The Azure SQL DB Serverless & Resource Governance (RG) team builds and maintains Microsoft’s operational database systems. They focus on data-driven decisions, working with the SQL engine’s advanced internals, a global orchestration system managing millions of databases, and petabytes of telemetry data.
Responsibilities
- Make data-driven decisions on database placement and load balancing.
- Work with the SQL engine internals and global orchestration system.
- Analyze petabytes of telemetry data to guide decisions.
Opportunities
This role offers the chance to work on high-scale distributed systems, influence the future of cloud-native databases, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
Key skills/competency
- Cloud
- Database
- SQL
- Data Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Azure
- Analytics
- Performance
- Scalability
- Resource Governance
How to Get Hired at Microsoft
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Customize your resume: Highlight database and cloud experience.
- Research Microsoft: Understand company culture and innovations.
- Showcase projects: Emphasize distributed systems achievements.
- Practice technical questions: Prepare for cloud and SQL topics.