Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking a cloud-enabled world. 

Microsoft’s Intelligence Platform engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like Power BI, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer. We will bring the world’s data to the Microsoft Cloud, power a new class of data first applications, and empower everyone on the planet to make better decisions with data.   

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 ideas are better, our products are better, and our customers are better served. 

We are the Analysis Services Engine team which is the data processing engine behind Power BI service. Our analytics engine is used by Power BI family of products as well as SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Azure Analysis Services (AAS). 

Power BI is a very successful and rapidly growing business analytics service and our team is directly responsible for its database engine. SSAS is the box part of the multi-billion-dollar SQL Server product line. AAS is a PaaS offering under Azure branding and is one of the top emerging Azure services. 

The core Analysis Services engine has a bright future as the adoption of the AS Engine grows through these product lines. Our team works primarily on the AS engine as well as components that integrate this engine into the Power BI and AAS service infrastructures. 

We’re a tightly knit team and allow everyone a chance to work on and move between any part of the product, including AS Engine, service infrastructure, cloud scalability, and service quality. We also constantly provide peer feedback to help each other grow and it is also heavily used in annual review and promotion evaluation. If you would like to join a transparent and healthy competitive environment, we look forward to working with you!  

Responsibilities

Responsibilities for this job include, but are not limited to:  

Design, write and deliver software, to improve the availability, reliability, scalability, latency, security, resiliency, and efficiency of a service/product. 
Collaborate with internal Microsoft and Power BI partner teams to develop and integrate technology. 
Write automated unit and integration tests. 
Contribute to debugging, troubleshooting complete stack of a service/product and drive analysis of an outage.
Write software and build automation to resolve problems permanently. 
Participate actively in architecture and code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals. 
Help and support customers to successfully use our product/service. 

Qualifications

A Bachelors and/or Masters degree in a Computer Science or equivalent field of study. 

2+ years of experience in database engine or online distributed services 

2+ years of C/C++/C# programming experience  

  

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: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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