Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is a company where 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 Data Base (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 open source software (OSS) offerings.

Microsoft has transformed itself into the undisputed leader driving innovations in data platform capabilities. Our data platform powers innovation in every industry, facilitates breakthrough scientific and medical research, and underpins intelligent applications that are changing the way people live. Enterprises and research institutions are using this platform to disrupt markets and transform their businesses. From Edge to Cloud and spanning multiple operating systems, and multiple public and private clouds the Azure Data Platform provides limitless career growth opportunities.

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s next generation globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model cloud database service. It is designed to enable developers to build planet-scale applications. Azure Cosmos DB is one of the fastest growing Azure services. Joining the Azure Cosmos DB team is a fantastic opportunity to work with incredibly talented engineers operating like a startup and be at the forefront of building distributed services at scale.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our cloud databases team and who enjoys taking data driven decisions and building innovative solutions to support the business growth. You will be responsible for designing and building reliable, high-performance, low-latency solutions for Cosmos DB services at scale. You will work across the stack and collaborate with engineers on the team to convert vision into a high quality, shipped product.

Our team focuses on diversity of all types of candidates for our roles and we strive to hire people with different experiences and perspectives into our team. 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.

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

• Lead designs and execution to build the Cosmos DB service for different hardware architectures and platforms. Create proposals for architecture improvements by testing design hypotheses and refining code plans.
• Apply debugging and profiling tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur in production. Conduct retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems.
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive the workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Mentor less experienced engineers to help them reach their utmost potential.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other 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