13 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own availability, durability, performance, and scale for large-scale Azure SQL databases supporting a production Azure service.
- Lead query-plan analysis, indexing, concurrency control, stored procedure optimization, workload isolation, and diagnosis of complex database issues.
- Define capacity planning models, performance guardrails, growth-readiness strategies, and database reliability standards.
- Influence schema design, access patterns, transaction boundaries, consistency models, and database-related architecture decisions.
- Design and execute safe automated schema changes, configuration updates, and live-system data migrations with rollout, validation, and rollback strategies.
- Define Azure SQL telemetry and integrate database health signals into service-level monitoring and reliability models with SREs.
- Serve as the database technical authority during live-site incidents and on-call rotations, and lead root-cause analysis.
- Build reusable automation and tooling, reduce database technical debt and manual operations, and share practices across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- Extensive experience operating and administering Azure SQL in large-scale, highly available production environments.
- Expertise in database performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization for high-traffic, mission-critical systems.
- Understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals for relational databases, including replication, failover, durability, and consistency.
- Experience designing and executing online schema changes and data migrations on live systems.
- Experience providing technical leadership during high-severity incident response and driving corrective actions.
- Ability to influence engineers and architects without direct authority and set technical direction across teams.
- Experience with Azure SQL geo-replication, failover groups, high-availability patterns, SRE or reliability-focused engineering, automation, mentoring, and cross-team technical strategy.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800-$274,800 per year; specific ranges apply in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.