Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Azure Database for MySQL is a managed relational database service provided in Microsoft Azure. We are expanding the capabilities of MySQL database service in Azure and need your help to meet our customers’ demand. Our team is part of Database Systems organization that’s building the MySQL service on the common platform supporting all relational database workloads and leveraging the scale of our global presence in all Azure datacenters. We are looking for people passionate about tackling the breadth of issues coming from running online services, such as improving availability, scalability, query performance and processing, storage and networking optimizations, operating systems integration, and more. If you would like to help us make Azure the best place to run MySQL database workloads, please let us know.

Here’s a little introduction to our team:

• We spend our days collaborating with, teaching, and learning from a diverse set of world class engineers. We develop, test, and check code in, every day.

• We are obsessed with customers and make data-driven decisions using telemetry collected from customers and production systems.

• We take time to build the engineering systems that allow us to focus on new problems and reduce overhead.

• We look for opportunities to use existing technologies and are at the forefront of Microsoft’s embracing of open source.

• We have alluring solutions that no one in the industry had dared to build because the problems are breathtakingly challenging. That’s why we need you!

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or object-oriented programming OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ experience building and shipping production grade software or services
• 5+ professional experience with at least one relational database systems, ideally MySQL.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep systems background with strong fundamentals in OS and databases.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment.
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner• Great curiosity and willingness to question
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers

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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.

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