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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 of 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 a 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.
Are you excited by the challenge of building cloud-scale systems that push the boundaries of performance, availability, and intelligent data access? Are you passionate about database systems, distributed infrastructure, and the opportunity to work on deep technical problems alongside experienced engineers and researchers?
The Azure PostgreSQL Database Services team is hiring early-career engineers with advanced degrees in Computer Science or related fields to join our mission to build the next-generation PostgreSQL platform on Azure. This platform powers mission-critical applications across startups, enterprises, and AI-driven workloads.
The Azure PostgreSQL Database Services team is seeking early-career engineers with advanced degrees in Computer Science or related fields who are passionate about database system internals. Candidates should bring a genuine curiosity for how databases work under the hood, with prior academic or practical work in areas such as storage engines, query processing, concurrency control, or transaction management. Join our mission to build the next-generation PostgreSQL platform on Azure, powering mission-critical applications across startups, enterprises, and AI-driven workloads.
As a core part of the team, you will contribute to innovations in storage systems, high availability, replication, query processing, and PostgreSQL engine internals, gaining deep experience in real-world distributed systems. You’ll work in a collaborative, high-growth environment where your ideas, curiosity, and academic expertise are valued and developed.
About the Team
We are a fast-growing, highly collaborative team dedicated to advancing the capabilities of modern database systems and empowering developers through deep technical innovation. Our work covers essential areas of database systems internals, including storage architecture, memory management, high-performance query processing, replication technologies, and robust distributed systems design. We believe that groundbreaking progress emerges at the intersection of rigorous systems engineering, thoughtful collaboration, and bold experimentation. Our inclusive, high-performing culture values diverse viewpoints, continuous technical growth, and an unwavering commitment to excellence that drives impactful results throughout the database technology landscape.
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.
Why This Role Is Unique
Required Qualifications
Other Requirements
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:
Preferred Qualifications
Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.
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