Software Engineer- Azure SQL Database @ Microsoft

Job description

• As a member of this amazing team you will participant in all stages of our cloud offering lifecycle - from initial research, discovery, data science, solution prototyping, development, testing, debugging, all the way through deployment to stage, production and operation readiness.
• You will have the opportunity to influence the entire stack, from the SQL engine to real time telemetry, to the fabric service orchestration system, and to wear multiple hats to demonstrate breadth, depth, and leadership.
• Placement and load-balancing is a complex and highly sensitive area where even one change in the algorithms and policies can have immediate and impactful changes to customer experience as well as the economics of the business.
• We are looking for someone to help determine and build the next generation of algorithms and software for this crucial area of Azure SQL DB.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Great curiosity and willingness to question, undaunted by hard technical problems.
• Proficiency with C++, and/or C#.
• Strong design, implementation, and communication skills.
• Good knowledge of SQL is a strong plus.
• Prior experience in Cloud service offering is a strong plus.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or Engineering with a focus on systems and related algorithms or Computer Science with a focus on data science and statistics

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience with at-scale distributed systems
• 1-2 years of experience with large-scale data analytics and appropriate data systems (Terabytes+)
• Some experience with orchestration systems like Kubernetes
• Some expertise in bin-packing or scheduling algorithms
• Some expertise in statistically significant testing methods, or signal analysis.