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 in 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, our Graph team is dedicated to simplifying the process of extracting insights from the vast scale of interconnected business data prevalent in every organization. We are driven by our goal to enable all users to visualize, analyze, and enrich the intricate relationships within their business data.

We are currently seeking a talented C++ Software Engineer with strong C++ programming skills who can help implement our vision of a scale-out, analytical graph query engine, enabling large-scale graph analytics for data analysts, business users, and data scientists across all organizations.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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

• You will participate in the development of our analytical graph query engine, based on modern C++, collaborating with industry experts on the query frontend, optimization and distributed execution components.
• You will contribute to the modularization, optimization, testing, repairability and observability of the core system components.
• You will implement appropriate observability metrics and analyze these metrics to improve the quality of decisions.
• You will work on collecting, classifying, and analyzing complex data.