Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

5 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 26/10/2025

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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.

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages - C, C++
Experience in system designing and developing production quality software
Methodical problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

Extensive and specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Database/OS internals, Big Data technologies, Hardware knowledge (CPU/System/Networking/Storage..), and Cloud related technologies
5+ years of experience related to Performance Engineering skills covering design/development/usage of performance workloads/test-suites/Tools to measure, analyze and root cause performance and scalability issues in the product
Experience in both Windows and Linux system administration fundamentals

Responsibilities

Spearheading prototype projects to swiftly assess design concepts. Identifying and driving prototype projects for quick evaluation of design ideas
Contributing to current and future product improvements around performance (perf/scale/SLA)
Spearheading prototype projects to swiftly assess design concepts
Identifying and driving prototype projects for quick evaluation of design ideas
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
Spend days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers
Obsessed with customers, making data-driven decisions, and using telemetry collected from customers and production systems
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.