Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. They are hiring a senior software engineer with deep expertise in database internals and systems design to help extend PostgreSQL to power large scale document workloads, focusing on foundational features across the query, indexing subsystem, and storage layer for mission-critical workloads running on Azure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead deep work on PostgreSQL internals (index access methods, operator classes) to design, implement and evolve indexing strategies for largescale unstructured / semi-structured data
• Extend PostgreSQL’s query engine by analyzing execution plans, introducing BSON aware operators, custom scan nodes and new cursor/continuation semantics to match NoSQL query needs and ensure efficient execution at scale
• Design and tune index pruning strategies that keep large tables and indexes lean without regressing query performance
• Collaborate across the PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Linux Foundation hosted DocumentDB communities to share vision, align on roadmap priorities, and contribute features that advance the open source DocumentDB engine
• Profile and analyze distributed system to identify performance bottlenecks
• Conduct and participate in design/code reviews and help shape and steer the team coding guidelines
• Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 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
• Experience with internals of PostgreSQL or similar Enterprise Database Management system, including Storage Engine and High Availability
• Experience building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees
• 2+ years of experience in designing, developing and shipping system level features in a large-scale cloud application or a backend distributed system
• 2+ years of experience developing and maintaining high-performance libraries or software engineering with a focus on large distributed systems involving concurrency, storage systems or databases