Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

5 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 23/08/2025

Job Description

Overview

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.

Our team is responsible for mission critical functions such as High Availability, Scalability, Storage and Data Integrity for millions of databases. This is a great opportunity to learn and work on the internals of enterprise class relational database engines, solve hard problems, and build a highly scalable and reliable data service. You will be working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of the Azure Hyperscale Database service. Join us to help us advance the state of the art in Database Systems.

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics
7+ years of experience working in the System design and development space
Proficient in C/C++
Hands on experience in troubleshooting, debugging complex problems
Self-driven, results oriented, ability to work collaboratively and provide technical leadership/guidance to junior engineers

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

Experience with relational database internals and storage systems
Experience with large scale distributed systems, multithreading and concurrency management
Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
Proven experience in improving product quality and reliability
Good knowledge in the software release process and automation
Torch bearer for good engineering practices such as specs, code reviews, root cause analysis process etc.

Responsibilities

As an engineer in the Hyperscale team in Azure SQL Database, you will work on the latest technology in compute and storage, apply innovative algorithms for solving database, computing, and storage problems at scale and with high performance. We need collaborative developers who can think big and find creative ways to meet these challenges
As a technical lead, you will get to mentor and lead a group of engineers and drive the team effort to success. You will get to work with technical experts across the globe, acquire and pass on the knowledge to other engineers in the team
You will demonstrate strong customer empathy and participate in live site rotations to mitigate and resolve the challenges faced by customers
Embody our culture and values

About Company

Microsoft Corporation is a leading American multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is best known for its software products, including the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, and Azure cloud services. The company also produces hardware like the Surface devices and owns LinkedIn, GitHub, and the Xbox gaming brand. Microsoft is one of the world's most valuable companies, playing a key role in personal computing, enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing.