9 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve PostgreSQL indexing strategies for large-scale unstructured and semi-structured data.
- Extend PostgreSQL's query engine with execution-plan analysis, BSON-aware operators, custom scan nodes, 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 features.
- Profile distributed systems and identify performance bottlenecks.
- Participate in design and code reviews and help shape team coding guidelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred experience with PostgreSQL or similar enterprise database management system internals, including storage engines and high availability.
- Preferred experience building distributed systems with strong guarantees.
- Preferred 2+ years designing, developing, and shipping system-level features in a large-scale cloud application or backend distributed system.
- Preferred 2+ years developing and maintaining high-performance libraries or software focused on concurrency, storage systems, databases, or large distributed systems.
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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.