Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

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.​

​​The Azure Data Backplane team is looking for people who are interested in developing a state-of the-art platform that spans multiple clouds, hosts multiple database engines, and enables touch-free deployments to millions of databases in a fast, safe, and reliable way. The platform provides full lifecycle services involving deployment, upgrade, high availability, disaster recovery, supportability, and management end-to-end.

We are a small but diverse team of people with various views, backgrounds, and beliefs. We invest in each other’s success and elevate each other. We foster a friendly and inclusive environment where every individual is valued. We work at all layers of the technology stack and have both technically deep and broad challenges; from deep systems code to complex distributed systems. If that sounds exciting to you, then Data Platform Backplane team could be a great place to call home.

We are hiring software engineers to help define and implement the next set of technologies to enable Microsoft to tackle a new set of enterprise and cloud problems.

Here’s a little introduction to our team: 

• We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers. 

• We develop, test, and check code in every day. 

• We are obsessed with customers and make data-driven decisions using telemetry collected from customers and production systems. 

• We take time to build the engineering systems that allow us to focus on new problems and reduce overhead. 

• We look for opportunities to use existing technologies and open source.

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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.

Responsibilities

• ​​Design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions that meet the needs of our clients and internal stakeholders.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in various programming languages.

• Contribute to the architectural design and development of scalable and reliable software systems.

• Perform thorough testing of software applications to ensure quality, reliability, and robustness.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions.

• Create and maintain technical documentation such as design documents, API specifications, and user manuals.

• Identify and resolve technical issues in a timely manner to minimize downtime and maintain optimal system performance.

• Participate in code reviews to provide constructive feedback and ensure code quality and best practices.

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends, and actively participate in knowledge sharing sessions within the team.​

Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required /Minimum Qualifications

• ​Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics OR 2+ years of industry software engineering experience

• 2 years of programming experience writing code in Java, C++, C#, or C or other object-oriented programming language.​

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• ​​Great curiosity and willingness to question

• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment

• Design and development experience in database engines, distributed systems, cloud computing, container technology, and operating system internals

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills​

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .