The Azure Data organization delivers world class relational database technologies used across the globe on everything from small devices, desktops, servers to some of the largest Cloud deployments in the world. Our growing portfolio includes both existing large contributors to Microsoft’s revenue, as well as important growth engines for Microsoft’s future – SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Database for MySQL/PostgreSQL, SQL in Azure VMs, Data Factory and more. 

Our Services are growing at massive scale with many enterprise customers onboarded on them and hundreds of our engineers contributing changes to them on daily basis. With such responsibility, improving our engineering efficiency, shifting-left quality, shipping payloads on schedule, and deploying safely, reliably and quickly to millions of SQL Servers without impacting the customers workloads all become more and more critical.

We are the Engineering Systems team in the Azure Data organization. Our mission is to enable touch-free flow of high-quality payloads from check-in to full production rollout in predictable, reliable, safe and scalable manner.  We are a small but diverse team of people with various views, backgrounds and beliefs. We foster a friendly and inclusive environment where every individual is valued, and we take pride in our outstanding work-health index results and collaborative work culture. Our customers are both our fellow engineers in the Azure Data organization as well as our internal and external customers - we deliver key value to both. We value passion, curiosity and desire to make a lasting impact on the field of Engineering Efficiency and deploying high quality payload while maintaining our world-class SLAs. We are humbled and inspired by the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build the next generation engineering pipeline on top of Microsoft 1ES (One Engineering System) technologies to achieve our goal. 

Responsibilities

As a senior engineer in our team, you will help us deliver best-in-class productivity for our engineers. We do not believe in a treadmill approach and leverage modern logging technologies like Aria and Kusto to gather telemetry which we then use to prioritize and deliver our work. Our team oversees the inner loop and payload validation for one of the most dynamic groups in Azure, and we automate the certification of changes with over a million tests spread over more than 16,000 suites running in Windows, Linux and more. Our automated Continuous Validation pipeline detects regressions, triangulates them to the faulty commit, and rolls them back, touch-free, in a few hours. Our builds consist of more than 14,000 targets which build in less than 30 minutes, and we are constantly working to improve the experience for our customers. In this role, you will be empowered to overhaul the inner loop from how engineers setup their development machine to how they validate their changes locally and everything in between. 

Qualifications

Limitless passion for finding and eliminating inefficiencies 

Great analytical skills and learning agility 

Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results in dynamic environment 

Capacity and interest to drill deep through software layers 

Strong collaboration and partnership skills 

Sharp customer focus and passion for improving engineering productivity 

Basic qualifications:  

5+ years of industry experience designing, developing and shipping high quality scalable software and services 

5+ years solid understanding of commonly used data structure and algorithms, and proven ability to apply them towards solving tough problems  

A BS/MS degree in Computer Science  

Opportunity for you: 

Work directly with your hundreds of customers to improve the productivity of one of the fastest growing groups in Azure. 

Join a team that values individual excellence, teamwork, honesty and transparency, empowerment and accountability, customer focus, quality, innovation and agility. 

Do your very best work and not let process, discipline, roles, rules or organizational boundaries hold you back. We are at a place where high product quality and built-to-last engineering really matter. 

Work in a dynamic, diverse and supportive work environment with the backing of an established business. 

Work in an understanding work environment that supports work-life balance and diverse working styles. 

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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.      

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.