Job description
We are the new and rapidly growing Azure Open Source Database Services team at Microsoft and we're looking for a Software Engineer who has experience and are excited about building large scale managed database cloud services. If you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge, cloud-scale distributed systems technologies, if you have experience with kubernetes, containters, docker and are passionate about developing fault tolerant, performant, self-managing, self-healing services hosting mission critical customer workloads and are operated at massive scale, this role is for you!
A brief introduction to our team:
- We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers.
- We are obsessed with customers and make data-driven decisions using telemetry collected from customers and production systems.
- We develop, test, and commit code every day.
- We look for opportunities to use existing technologies and open source and are committed to contributing back to the open source code bases and community.
- We take the time to build platforms and tools that are robust and help practice our craft efficiently and effectively.
- We value passion, creativity, agility, accountability, team collaboration and the desire to learn new, complex technical areas.
This is a great opportunity to be part of a very agile team, tackle hard distributed system problems, solve breathtakingly challenging problems, and ship high impact features at a rapid pace.
Responsibilities
As an engineer, you will have an opportunity to design, build a massively scalable database hosting services using the latest technologies in compute and container hosting. You will be able to apply your critical thinking, problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills to help build these services. You will have the chance to influence the next generation of database hosting platform for Microsoft. You will get to work on solving some of the most difficult and complex problems in distributed systems space, with a highly motivated and passionate team. You will have the opportunity to develop deep relationships with open source communities with high impact on Microsoft’s data business.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or in place of 2+ years of internship or 2+ years of industry engineering experience
- 2+ years of programming experience in Java OR C++ OR C OR object-oriented programming
Preferred Qualifications:
- Solid coding skills in C#, C++, Go, Java.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes and/or similar technology
- Experience in operating production service at scale with high availability guarantees
- Solid Computer Science fundamentals, fluent in multi-threaded and asynchronous programming, passionate about architecting at scale
- Excellent technical design, problem solving, debugging and communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated experience in shipping high quality products and services
- Bachelor of Science / Master of Science in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.
Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.
Our commitment to pay equity
We are committed to the principle of pay equity – paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report )
Understanding roles at Microsoft
The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply – Software Engineering IC3.
The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts – the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role – a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.
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