Software Engineer II

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 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 to build a 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 a 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. 
Join our team and help make Azure PostgreSQL the best managed PostgreSQL service! 

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our team and help us improve our service fundamentals. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on a large-scale Azure service. 

Why join us? 
Be a pioneer: Join a team that is pushing the boundaries with AI/ML-driven service monitoring, customer-focused reporting, live site management, intelligent and fully automated test, release, deployment systems and more. 
Make an Impact: Your contributions will significantly enhance the quality, reliability, and efficiency of our service, creating a profound effect across our product team and customer community.  
Architectural Innovation: Shape the evolution of service architecture, driving improvements in reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.  
Your role: As a Software engineer, you will help improve the quality, reliability, and release velocity of our service. You will work on Azure-wide initiatives and help enhance our service architecture. 
 
What you'll do: 
Build and innovate: Develop and implement tools and processes to improve our service fundamentals. 
Collaborate: Work closely with teams within Azure PostgreSQL and across Azure to ensure alignment and delivery excellence. 
Enhance customer experience: Drive initiatives to improve the overall service quality and customer experience. 
Is this you? If you are passionate about improving service quality and customer experience, this is the role for you. Join us and help deliver the best managed PostgreSQL service in the world. 
Our team cultivates an environment that values diversity and inclusivity, always putting people first. Our daily routine involves working together, imparting knowledge, and gaining insights from a varied group of top-notch engineers. We are engaged in the daily development, testing, and review of code. We don’t merely appreciate diversity and unique viewpoints, but actively pursue and welcome them, harnessing the combined strength of all members of our organization. Consequently, we are able to provide superior service to our customers. 

• Strong coding skills and computer science fundamentals, develop and design solutions to enable reliability through observability of PostgreSQL service. 

• As a Software Engineer within our team, Create and implement code for PostgreSQL service or feature reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns code that is extensible and maintainable. Learns about service fundamentals and applies diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Apply coding patterns and best practices to write code. Consistently producing extensible and maintainable code. Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices by guiding them to achieve success in the identified focus areas. 

• As a Software Engineer within our team, you'll collaborate with various service teams, empowering them to embrace and deliver success on our focus areas. You'll champion Azure-wide initiatives, ensuring seamless integration and implementation across the service. Your role extends to enhancing service level issues, reliability, scalability, clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, writing unit test cases and learns to integrate automation into testing. Assists and learns about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation. Escalates any issues that would cause a delay 

• Collaborative Leadership: Partner closely with the leadership team and sister teams across Azure to ensure alignment and delivery excellence. considers the impact of building deployments on both users and other services. Learning about best practices for the deployment of features safely. 

• Enhance Customer Lived Experience: Drive initiatives that elevate the overall service quality, ensuring exceptional customer experience. 

• Identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight, participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards and static code analysis tools are followed. Consider diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understand when code is ready to be shared or delivered. 

• Maintain/Participate in operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.