• Senior Software Engineer

    Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)


    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 (Data Base), 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 (Artificial Intelligence), 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.​

     

    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 across geographical regions with tunable consistency while providing blazing fast read/write performance backed by enterprise grade SLAs.

     

    Azure Cosmos DB is one of the fastest growing Azure services. Azure Cosmos DB team is a diverse team with highly talented engineers operating with a growth mindset ready to deliver on our next set of big challenges.

     

    We are looking for motivated and self-driven individuals who are passionate about developing high performance, low latency, infinitely scalable, complex services/frameworks/opensource libraries/experiences for Cosmos DB, to be used by customers across the globe in business-critical workloads. These workloads capture the needs of the hobbyist developer to the Fortune 500 companies.

     

    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.

     

    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.

    Responsibilities

    + You are responsible for the technical design and implementing low latency, high performance, always available software for a plant scale service for mission critical workloads

    + You will work closely with cross-functional teams across Azure CosmosDB, to enable and succeed both Microsoft internal and customers to be successful on CosmosDB platform.

    + You lead by example. You are a hands-on practitioner in development, operationalization and support

    + Your ability to balancing the long-term architecture while delivering the incremental milestones with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets and executing it through peers

     

    Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

    Qualifications

    Required/Minimum Qualifications

    + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.

    + 4+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, production-grade services, APIs, or developer platforms.

    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 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/Additional Qualifications

    + Prior development experience, in delivering large scale services with a fearless mindset to tackle intrinsically hard technical problems and making customer successful.

    + Problem-solving, design and troubleshooting skills, with a bias for designing and supporting systems at scale with high quality.

    + Able to analyze and clearly articulate complex issues/abstractions and technologies understandably.

    + Willingness to learn, cooperate and collaborate with-in and across teams and ability to progress independently.

    + Self-starter, execute, get it done, and own the feature, accountable while maintaining a very high-quality bar

     

    Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

     

    Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

     

    Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 31, 2025

     

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    Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .