The Software Development Engineer II role at Microsoft focuses on building and operating a globally distributed, fully managed PostgreSQL service within the Azure Data engineering team. This team is dedicated to delivering highly reliable, high-performance, and self-healing cloud systems that support mission-critical customer workloads. The position is ideal for engineers who enjoy tackling complex technical problems and developing scalable services while enhancing their technical expertise. The role emphasizes collaboration and innovation in a diverse environment.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.

• Design, produce, and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency of a cloud service.
• Contribute to fixing, enhancing, and supporting services in production, including periodic on-call duties.
• Collaborate with colleagues globally to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services.
• Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with feature teams, and support informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.