Principal Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA 
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Posted 12 days ago
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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. The Azure PostgreSQL databases team is hiring Principal Software Engineer to be part of PostgreSQL Engine team. We are looking for a hands-on engineer with experience in database internals, have experience in building distributed database systems at cloud scale. PostgreSQL internals and Linux experience is preferred for this role. The group fosters a diverse and inclusive work culture that always prioritizes people. We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class database experts with cloud, startup and opensource experience. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesArchitect, design and implement code changes in core PostgreSQL engine. Oversee areas of architecture, build and productize V0.01 projects. Build frameworks, analyze and fix performance bottlenecks found at cloud scale. Build prototypes to evaluate design and architectural options. Provide guidance and technical mentoring to engineers in the team. Maintain operations of live service on a rotational, on-call basis when issues arise. Embody our culture and values

 

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