Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database are world-class relational database systems widely used across the globe on everything from small devices and servers to some of the largest cloud deployments in the world, attracting application developers and enterprise workloads alike to the cloud. Azure SQL Database is looking for junior and senior engineers to be part of the ongoing journey to disrupt the database space with innovative features that get shipped in products. Our team is responsible for mission critical functions such as High Availability, Security and Data Integrity for millions of databases. This is a great opportunity to learn and work on the internals of enterprise class relational database engines, solve hard problems, and build a highly scalable and reliable data service. You will be working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of the Azure SQL Database service. Join us to help us advance the state of the art in Database Systems.

Responsibilities

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Security team is a fundamental building block for securing data at rest and in transit. As a critical part of Azure SQL Database platform, the service leverages security tools and infrastructures like Secure Enclave, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Role based authentication to mention a few to deliver customer facing products. Curiosity and willingness to question and learn, strong customer empathy, and willingness to participate in a live site on-call rotation are additional responsibilities. This person will be working in a globally distributed team environment and his/her role is expected to deliver key product features/functionalities independently with minimal guidance.

Qualifications

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 4+ years of industry engineering experience
• 3+ years of commercial systems level software development experience
• Proficiency in C#, C++, troubleshooting and debugging

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with relational database internals, data governance and storage systems
• Experience with large scale distributed systems, multithreading, and object-oriented programming
• Experience in UI/UX programing will be an added advantage
• Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes