Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Austin | |
 Jan 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 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. We are hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team. The products in 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 tobuild 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 big data analytics team providesa range of products that enable data engineersanddata scientiststo extract intelligence from all data-structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft builds a world-class SQL engine with decades of innovation that is used in SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and our cloud analytics scale-out SQL offering within Microsoft Fabric offering data warehouses storing hundreds of terabytes of data. These mission-critical systems require deep systems expertise to build and grow to satisfy the needs of our customers, from making systems that don't ever fail to pushing the absolute boundaries of what performance can be achieved to process queries. We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesDesign, code, test, and develop features with good quality, maintainability, and end to end ownershipCollaborate with colleagues across the world to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services.Design and develop highly-efficient code that scales to allow queries to run efficiently over very large data volumes.Mentor new engineers to bring them up to speed in software development environment.Contribute with fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties.Invest in code health/refactoring efforts to improve our ability to execute on shipping solutions to meet customer needs in a timely mannerEmbody our culture and values | |