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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

$119,800 - $258,000
Oct 25, 2025
Redmond, WA, US
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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. 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 work on distributed systems problems and technologies to determine the future of our planet scale database. Our team is also at the forefront of integrating Cosmos DB with Microsoft Fabric - powering both Cosmos DB in Fabric and Cosmos DB Mirroring in Fabric to unlock seamless analytics and operational scenarios across Microsoft’s data ecosystem.

Requirements

  • coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 3+ years of experience in distributed systems, client-server architecture, and distributed database technologies.
  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, especially on distributed systems.
  • 3+ years of experience building system designs and solutions on distributed systems.
  • Experience in development of cloud databases, especially No SQL.
  • Experience in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and programming languages (C-Sharp, C++, Powershell).

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and development of scalable distributed systems.
  • Innovate and optimize features for performance and reliability.
  • Collaborate across teams to align on goals and deliverables.
  • Engage with customers to gather feedback and resolve complex issues.
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning.
  • Embody our culture and values.

Other

  • 3 days / week in-office
  • Travel 0-25%
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Proven leadership and mentorship skills.
  • Good problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
  • Communication skills, both verbal and written.