Overview Do you want to join a world-class engineering team in India and work on hard technical challenges? Are you interested to work in a globally distributed team with an exceptional record of innovation and execution that has made us one of the largest businesses within Microsoft? If yes, keep reading… Azure SQL Database is a fast-growing platform as a service that is attracting application developers and enterprise workloads to the cloud. Our team is responsible for mission critical functions such as point in time restore, default disaster recovery and long-term retention 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 an environment where innovation is valued and will have an opportunity for direct impact on functionality, scalability, security, performance, manageability and supportability of the Azure SQL Database service. We need collaborative developers who can think big and find creative ways to meet these challenges. Come join us in the Azure Data SQL India team! Microsoft Azure SQL Performance Engineering team to work at the forefront of large-scale cloud database systems, where you’ll ensure that we deliver world-class performance, reliability, and efficiency under demanding real-world workloads. The team designs and executes competitive benchmarks, conducts deep performance investigations, and identifies bottlenecks across compute, storage, and distributed system layers, while going beyond measurement to drive real impact. You’ll collaborate closely with partner engineering teams to diagnose issues, influence architecture, and implement optimizations that directly enhance customer experience at scale, making this an ideal role for engineers passionate about performance, complex system problem-solving, and delivering measurable improvements in globally distributed services. Responsibilities Contribute to current/upcoming product improvements that have key performance deliverables solutions in collaboration with teammates. Collaborate with OEMs partners in analyzing SQL performance on modern h/w technologies and showcasing product performance for technical marketing deliverables (benchmarks, white papers, demos, etc.) Look into emerging and upcoming Azure SKUs and technologies and exploring new ideas to drive product improvements (hardware/software/config/COGS). This will also include modelling, competitive analysis & benchmarks. Strengthen the engineering process to make sure that cloud deployments (software & hardware) are done in the most efficient way and meet the targeted perf/scale/SLA goals. Identify improvements in supportability that enable performance analysis with a focus on cloud and on-prem platforms. Provide regular updates to key-stakeholders with respect to the performance analysis/progress/new-findings/status of assigned deliverables. Gain an understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users & customers. Stay educated on existing and state of the art technologies, and do POCs to evaluate technology fits for customer needs. Participate in on-call rotation for the team  .  Qualifications Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline 4+ years of programming experience in C++. 4+ years of experience related to Performance Engineering skills covering design/development/usage of performance workloads/Tools to measure, analyze and root cause performance and scalability issues in the product. Proficiency in troubleshooting and debugging Preferred Qualifications Extensive and specialized knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Database/OS internals, Hardware knowledge (CPU/System/Networking/Storage), and Cloud related technologies. Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills. Great curiosity and willingness to question, undaunted by hard technical problems. 2+ years of experience designing and developing production quality software using C/C++. Proven experience in improving product performance. Experience in both Windows and Linux system performance tools. MS in CS/CSE/EE or related discipline. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.