Software Engineer II

11/21/2025

Design, implement, and maintain services for SQL control plane and data plane services. Ensure high standards of quality and reliability across all services and solutions.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

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About The Company

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

About the Role

Responsibilities: - Design, implement and maintain services and components that provide secure and resilient platform for SQL control plane and data plane services. - Develop innovative technology for managing massive-scale operations for large customers tolerating underlying system failures, software and hardware upgrades and reconfiguration, while enabling optimal placement and utilization of Azure clusters and regions. - Design and implement solutions for cluster expansions at a global scale, analyze telemetry and the behavior of large distributed systems to mine actionable insights. - Ensure the highest standards of quality and reliability across all services and solutions. - Contribute to design of service software stack, datacenter design and network topology. - Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability, and compliance requirements - Research and adopt modern technology to improve quality of the service, increase customer value or reduce operating cost - Participate in on-call rotation for the team Qualifications: Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline - 4+ years of programming experience in C#, C++ or C - Proficiency in troubleshooting and debugging - 4+ years of commercial systems level software development experience Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with relational database internals and storage systems - Experience with large scale distributed systems, multithreading and object-oriented programming - Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. *

Key Skills

C#C++CTroubleshootingDebuggingDistributed SystemsMultithreadingObject-Oriented ProgrammingSQLTelemetryDatacenter DesignNetwork TopologyService Software StackCluster ManagementSoftware DevelopmentQuality Assurance