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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 03, 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. 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 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 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. In the cloud-based world, running our Azure service reliably and efficiently is key to Microsoft's growth and future. Azure SQL is one of the biggest services hosted by Azure. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. This role involves guiding and driving component teams in building a reliable service using the right data, telemetry, monitoring, observability, and automation tools. The successful candidate will be expected to make data-driven decisions to efficiently monitor and improve service reliability with good project management and communication skills. This is an excellent opportunity for a software engineer who is passionate about service reliability, loves to dive deep into complex systems, and is adept at working with large-scale cloud database services. 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.
ResponsibilitiesAct as subject matter expert for configuring, troubleshooting, and monitoring Azure Database/Managed Instance services. Identify opportunities and implement automation to resolve and reduce live-site incidents. Own, triage, investigate, and resolve service issues with emphasis on broad communications, learning, and teaching throughout the process. Interact with customers, spanning from technical to executive level, responding to escalations from support or service outages. Drive initiatives and projects across the organization. Ability to meet on-call responsibilities periodically. Embody our culture and values | |