Overview

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‍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.

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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 in 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.

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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.

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​Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s next generation of 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.

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Cosmos DB is a database of choice for the spectrum spanning from the hobbyist developer to the largest of Fortune 500 companies. The database provides the data backbone of many critical systems in Health Care, Retail, Telecommunications, IoT etc. where the Service Availability and Latency is paramount. Cosmos DB provides financially backed SLA (service level agreements) around 99.99 Availability and < 10 MS Latency, and we take pride in running service at scale. As a foundational Azure service, Cosmos DB service has a footprint that spans every Azure region. The team prides itself on building innovative reliable solutions in the core data plane path to support and balance customer dynamic growth across regions and clouds.

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We are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about cloud databases and who like taking data driven decisions and building innovative solutions to support the business growth. You will be responsible for building and optimizing solutions to build Cosmos DB services at scale. You will collaborate with engineers on the team and across services in Azure to architect, design and implement reliable, low-latency solutions for building Cosmos DB services. You will work across the stack to convert vision into a high quality, shipped feature. Demonstrated ability and passion for analyzing and improving large scale service deployments processes would be a plus.

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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.

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‍Responsibilities

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• Design, develop and maintain high scale services that form the backbone of Cosmos DB.
• Dive deep into Azure technologies and distributed database systems.
• Collaborate with partners, internal and external to Azure Cosmos DB organization, to design and build features that drive service growth.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Build reusable libraries of services best practices for other teams to leverage.

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‍Qualifications‍

Required Qualifications:

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• 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, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Business fluency in English (read, write, speak).

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Other Requirements:

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• 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.

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Preferred Qualifications:

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• ​​Preferred demonstrated experience with Azure technologies (or other cloud computing platforms) and distributed database systems.
• Drive to improve performance, availability and supportability of services.
• Drive to increase efficiencies through automation.​
• Effective communication skills.

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