Azure DevOps supports a collaborative culture and set of processes and tools that bring together developers, projects managers, and contributors to develop software. It enables the organizations to run the entire software development life-cycle from planning through deployment and maintenance.

We are looking for software Senior Software Engineers who would help us to provide great experience for software developers and improve our scalability in the space of CI/CD pipelines and repositories (git and TFVC). This engineer will be primarily focused on improving the health and performance of our Microsoft Azure SQL databases but the responsibilities will be broader and covering the backend/application tier services too.

• Lead and provide technical direction for the design and development of features, experiences & solutions for end-to-end business scenarios​

• Constantly improve our tooling for deployment and database upgrade processes

• Improve performance of stored procedures, functions and dynamic SQL

• Troubleshooting of complex SQL issues like deadlocks, high CPU/memory/IO utilization, suboptimal execution plans

• Mentor team members to grow the expertise in database performance tuning

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to build new features ​

• Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions primarily in C#, PowerShell, T-SQL

• Support highly available services used by top companies and millions of users on a daily basis ​

• Work with support to triage and debug technical support requests​

• Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better ​

• Mentor, pair, participate in code reviews, and delegate work to encourage the professional and technical growth of those around you ​

• Extensive software development experience in Microsoft SQL Server performance tuning

• Experience with Azure SQL Database or any other managed cloud database

• Experience as DBA (Database Administrator)

• Solid understanding of Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database architecture

• Experience with C#, C++, Java or any other OOP language​

• Strong software engineering skills across all phases of software development lifecycle​

• Practice of modern software engineering, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and releasing​

• Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases, debug client and service side applications​

• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks completely and independently, and generate clarity in ambiguous situations​

• Strong system design and algorithmic skills, good knowledge of data structures​

• Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers​

• Solid understanding of testing principles ​

• Excellent collaboration skills and critical thinking​

• Good communication skills both verbal and written​

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.