New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 09, 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 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 SQL Core Team is looking for a Software Engineer II with a passion for technology, performance and helping customers succeed on our platform by building the next set of industry-leading features and capabilities. SQL Core team works on key Azure SQL Database operating system capabilities (scheduling, memory management, locking, synchronization ...) with a focus on driving product performance and reducing TCO. We seek engineers who have experience in operating systems, hardware architectures (Intel, AMD, ARM), persistent memory technologies, performance and scalability on Windows and Linux. Engineers in SQL Core team will define and implement the next set of technologies, build new solutions and enable a new set of experiences for enterprise and cloud customers. 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. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesIdentifying and driving prototype projects for quick evaluation of design ideas.Contributing to current and future product improvements around performance (perf/scale/SLA).Looking into emerging and upcoming Azure HW SKUs and technologies, exploring new ideas to drive product improvements (hardware/software/config/COGS). Also includes modeling, competitive analysis & benchmarks.Strengthening the engineering process to ensure cloud deployments (software & hardware) are done in the most efficient way and meet the targeted perf/scale/SLA goals.Identifying improvements in supportability and customer self-diagnostics that enable live monitoring with focus on identifying/addressing performance related issues.Spenddays collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers.Obsessed with customers, makingdata-drivendecisions, and usingtelemetrycollected from customers and production systems. Embody our culture and values. | |