Software Engineer II

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Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

​​The SQL Tools team is hiring a Software Engineer to work on features and improvements in SQL’s most widely used tool, SQL Server Data Tool in Visual Studio. Your role will also include leading design discussions and hands-on technical discussions.

These established tools provide the right leader the potential to impact millions of users that build and manage enterprise scale data applications and services. Work on the team includes addressing customer needs and developing new innovations that align with improvements in SQL Server on-premises and in Azure. The diverse capabilities of SQL Server and Azure Data services provides members on the tooling team a wide array of technologies to work with. While most engineering is done in C# there are opportunities to work on other languages and platforms as well.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

Reliable problem-solving skills and experience with C#, .Net, Visual Studio Extension Development

Responsibilities

Design and implement capabilities that will address the key needs of customers and align with improvements in SQL Server on-premises and in Azure in Visual Studio.
Technical direction and strategic planning for product development, feature enhancement, and innovation in alignment with the business objectives​

Embody our culture and values