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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.
The Rollouts & upgrades team in Azure PostgreSQL is hiring Software Engineer. Part of Rollouts and upgrades team you will have the opportunity to design, develop and deploy highly scalable solution which is responsible for upgrading PostgreSQL servers across the fleet. You will mentor and coach engineers and contribute to the team culture and best practices.
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Responsibilities
Participate in architecture and design discussions of Rollouts & Upgrades solution to achieve high reliability, scalability and performance.
- Produce extensible, maintainable and high quality code covering all corner cases. Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Consider diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understand when code is ready to be shared or delivered.
- Drive the efforts of enhancing the existing code coverage by adding new tests.
- Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
- Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Preferred qualifications:
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR 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 Python OR equivalent experience.
2+ years of experience in developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system.
2+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade.
Job Requirements:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline OR equivalent experience
- Proven experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- Maintain operations of live service and participate in rotational on-call
- Pass Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 2+ years developing and shipping system-level features in enterprise backend server systems
- 2+ years building and supporting distributed cloud services in production
- Experience with PostgreSQL server upgrades and rollout tooling
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