Software Engineer, Azure Cosmos DB

Company Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers further in a world of more possibilities, innovation, and openness in a cloud-enabled environment.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. Our portfolio includes 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, storing and managing data in a structured way to enable a multitude of applications across various industries. We are enabling developer-friendly, mission-critical, AI-enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational, and OSS offerings.

About the Role

We are hiring a Software Engineer to join the Azure Cosmos DB team, where you will be working on a large-scale distributed operational database. In this role, you will tackle distributed systems problems and technologies to help determine the future of our planet-scale database.

Microsoft values diversity and different perspectives, seeking them out to tap into the collective power of everyone in the company, resulting in better service for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship distributed database management system offerings effectively, providing customer value in terms of security, performance, reliability, usability, and manageability while ensuring business goals are met.
• Collaborate effectively with the team, make appropriate systems tradeoffs in design and implementation, and ensure customer success in their use of the product.
• Embody Microsoft's culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related fields or equivalent industry experience.
• 2+ years of software development experience in building and shipping production software or services with code in languages such as C#, C++ or similar.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Experience working with large scale systems preferred.

Other & 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 Microsoft Cloud Background Check, which must be passed upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

Benefits/perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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 reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.