**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.​ ​​Our team is responsible for mission critical functions such as High Availability, Scalability, Storage and Data Integrity for millions of databases. This is a great opportunity to learn and work on the internals of enterprise class relational database engines, solve hard problems, and build a highly scalable and reliable data service. You will be working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of the Azure Hyperscale Database service. Join us to help us advance the state of the art in Database Systems. ​​ 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. **Responsibilities** **Responsibilities:** ​​As an engineer in the Hyperscale team in Azure SQL Database, you will work on the latest technology in compute and storage, apply innovative algorithms for solving database, computing, and storage problems at scale and with high performance. We need collaborative developers who can think big and find creative ways to meet these challenges. As a technical lead, you will get to mentor and lead a group of engineers and drive the team effort to success. You will get to work with technical experts across the globe, acquire and pass on the knowledge to other engineers in the team. You will demonstrate strong customer empathy and participate in live site rotations to mitigate and resolve the challenges faced by customers. Come join us in the Azure Data SQL India team! ​ Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) **Qualifications** Qualifications : Required/Minimum Qualifications ​​• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics • 8+ years of experience working in the System design and development space. • Proficient in C\C+• Hands on experience in troubleshooting, debugging complex problems. • Self-driven, results oriented, ability to work collaboratively and provide technical leadership \ guidance to junior engineers. Preferred/Additional Qualifications ​​• Experience with relational database internals and storage systems • Experience with large scale distributed systems, multithreading and concurrency management • Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills • Proven experience in improving product quality and reliability. • Good knowledge in the software release process and automation. • Torch bearer for good engineering practices such as specs, code reviews, root cause analysis process etc Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .