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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 in 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 a 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 a 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.

We are on the lookout for a dedicated Senior Software Engineer with a strong technical background and a keen focus on execution. The core objective of this role is to contribute to the enhancement of SQL Server Client drivers, aiming to improve their performance, reliability, maintainability, and usability. Additionally, you will be involved in refining their integration with various language-specific data frameworks. This role emphasizes technical prowess and execution, ensuring best practices are adhered to and high-quality code reviews are conducted.

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

In this position, you will work with a team of engineers to design, implement, and maintain features in one of the above mentioned SDK's or develop a new SDK as the need arises.

As a senior engineer you will have the opportunity to develop excellent design skills and grow as an engineer and technical leader to mentor and ramp up new hires.

You will work closely with program and product managers to ensure we are prioritizing the right customer asks.

You will improve and monitor telemetry to assess the health of the product in both pre-release as well as released software and use this data to drive improvements into the quality of the product.

Excellent communication and cross group collaboration skills.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

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

Prior development experience with the Rust language is a plus.

Prior experience working with ODBC, JDBC, and other database drivers is a plus.

Prior experience with building API libraries for application developers.

Building applications/micro-services in Azure, AWS or GCP

Qualifications

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