Azure Messaging Team – Senior Software Engineer

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 messaging and real-time analytics team provides comprehensive solutions and a robust platform that enables users to ingest high granularity signals (real-time & observability) and complex data, converting those into a competitive advantage in real-time for both end users and modern applications.  ​ 

​​​​Azure Messaging Team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to help us tackle the new challenges we face as we strive to further scale our services. We are highly collaborative, data-oriented, and greatly value diversity of thought and ideas.   

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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. 

​Provide leadership in improving the performance, reliability and scalability of the messaging services.   
 
Build real-time data ingestion services which support millions of messages being processed per second with 99.99% service availability.   
 
Build highly reliable distributed storage systems which support low latency/high throughput for ingestion, relying on cutting edge technologies like Azure Service Fabric.    
 
Integrate with ecosystems such as: IoT applications, Azure Serverless, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse.   
 
Owning the products and driving them end to end, all the way from gathering requirements, development, testing, deployment to ensuring high availability post deployment.   
 
Triaging issues and implementing solutions to restore service with minimal disruption to the customer and business. Perform root cause analysis, trend analysis and post-mortems.