8 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead PostgreSQL internals work involving index access methods and operator classes for large-scale unstructured and semi-structured data.
- Extend the PostgreSQL query engine with BSON-aware operators, custom scan nodes, execution-plan analysis, and cursor or continuation semantics.
- Design and tune index-pruning strategies while maintaining query performance.
- Collaborate with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Linux Foundation DocumentDB communities on roadmap priorities and open-source engine features.
- Profile distributed systems to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Participate in design and code reviews and help shape coding guidelines.
- Complete required Microsoft Cloud background and security screening checks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience involving coding, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with PostgreSQL internals or similar enterprise database management systems, including storage engines and high availability, is preferred.
- Experience building distributed systems with strong guarantees is preferred.
- 2+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping system-level features in a large-scale cloud application or backend distributed system is preferred.
- 2+ years of experience developing and maintaining high-performance libraries or software focused on large distributed systems involving concurrency, storage systems, or databases is preferred.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements.
Benefits
- 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.
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About Microsoft
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