Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
Found: Today
Microsoft 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. 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.
We are a team of passionate engineers who work on building and scaling the managed PostgreSQL service on Azure. This team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help with driving reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence and enable scalable cloud database experiences by owning platform primitives, developer productivity, and end-to-end service health for mission‑critical PostgreSQL workloads.
Responsibilities* Design, develop, and maintain core PostgreSQL platform components. * Improve system reliability, availability, and performance through code enhancements, telemetry, and automation. * Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, and validation systems for platform correctness. * Collaborate with partner teams (migration, security, infrastructure) to integrate foundational capabilities. * Participate in on-call rotations and ensure high service quality and operational excellence.
Required/Minimum Qualifications
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
* 10+ years of software development experience using C#, C++, GO, RUST or an equivalent systems programming language
* knowledge of database internals in PostgreSQL (preferred)
* Proficiency in building highly concurrent, multi-threaded, performance‑optimized systems (Go, Rust, C#, C/C++)
* Strong debugging, performance tuning, and systems‑level problem‑solving skills.
