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.
The Client Experience team is in a unique position in charge of facing customers directly, and at the same time being the funnel of most innovation and development across the PostgreSQL organization. You would be able to lead AI-driven development, experimentation, surveying capabilities and help us gather a better understanding of our users We deliver customer delight and engineering excellence by crafting intuitive, high-impact experiences across Azure PostgreSQL’s customer-facing surfaces.
Our culture and position in the organization. We leverage years of cumulative experience and the benefit of a very flat organization, where very senior engineers invest in the success of everyone that joins our teams. Additionally, we are in a place where experience meets ingenuity, creativity and the desire to make something new, and most importantly of high impact. Want to leverage AI to solve problems? Have special skills you want to put to into practice? Want to continue to grow your career? All is possible with our team. We have carved out ambitious objectives to pursue to continue to place PostgreSQL based solutions as the preferred option by large companies, major organization and open-source developers.
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.
What Success Looks Like in This Role:
- We deliver reliable, well‑tested changes that improve customer experience.
- We demonstrate steady learning velocity and increasing technical independence.
- We actively seek feedback and incorporates it into future work.
- We build trust with teammates through clear communication and follow‑through.
Responsibilities
- Builds and evolves customer-facing experiences for Azure Database for PostgreSQL across the Azure Portal and related client surfaces.
- Implements end‑to‑end features spanning UI, client logic, and service integrations, from design through production rollout.
- Owns quality and reliability of client experiences by fixing bugs, improving performance, and participating in incident diagnosis and follow‑ups.
- Partners closely with Product Managers and Design to translate customer scenarios, requirements, and UX designs into shipped features.
- Enables and runs experimentation (A/B tests) to validate UX, labeling, flows, and feature changes using telemetry and metrics.
- Improves developer and customer usability by simplifying workflows, reducing friction, and modernizing portal and client patterns.
- Operates with production mindset, including code reviews, telemetry validation, and continuous improvement of live systems.
- Embodies our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or Python,
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional Requirements
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.
Preferred/ Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or Python,
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or Python,
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with full‑stack development and exposure to frontend development (e.g., TypeScript, React, or similar frameworks), with an understanding of basic UI/UX principles.
- Familiarity with building customer‑facing applications or portals, through internships, academic projects, or early industry experience.
- Basic understanding of cloud concepts, such as resource configuration, service lifecycle, or managed services (Azure experience is a plus).
- Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL fundamentals; familiarity with PostgreSQL concepts is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, take feedback, and grow technical ownership over time. Experience collaborating with product managers or designers on feature delivery or UX improvements.
- Introductory knowledge of experimentation or telemetry concepts, such as logging, metrics, feature flags, or A/B testing.
- Experience collaborating in a team-based engineering environment, including participating in code reviews, stand‑ups, or design discussions.
- Prior internship, capstone project, or open‑source contributions involving production‑quality code.
