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FULL_TIME
5-10

Senior Software Engineer - PostgreSQL team

11/26/2025

Design, produce, and deliver software to enhance cloud service reliability and performance. Collaborate globally to support enterprise-grade services and mentor junior engineers.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

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
Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency of a cloud service. Contribute with fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties. Collaborate with colleagues across the world to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services. Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals. Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems. Drive and lead the software development projects from technical perspective. Proactively come up with the proposals for further improvements of the system, process and owned product. Mentor and guide the junior engineering colleagues. Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline. 5+ years of experience in technical design, problem-solving, and debugging. 5+ years of experience with architecting large system and seeing them to production. 3+ years of development experience on Linux and knowledge of Linux System internals Passion and motivation for technology. Ability to effectively communicate in English. Passion for growth, exploring new things, and learning from others and own mistakes. Experience in one or more programming languages, including, but not limited to: C/C++, Java, C#, Python, PowerShell, Rust Experience with planning, organizing, and executing improvements on components and feature areas. Drive for customer engagement and obsession, with data driven approach. Formal and non-formal leadership skills. 3+ years of experience running large-scale services and building databases systems. Industry experience building and maintaining open-source software (OSS) and working with PostgreSQL. Proficient analytical skills with systematic and structured approaches to software design.
Key Skills
PostgreSQLSoftware DevelopmentLinuxC/C++JavaC#PythonPowerShellRustTechnical DesignProblem-SolvingDebuggingMentoringCustomer EngagementOpen-Source SoftwareAnalytical Skills
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineering
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