Software Engineer II

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, 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.

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL and vector database designed for modern application development, including AI-driven applications and agents. It powers real-time workloads that demand global scale, high performance, and distributed computing across massive volumes of NoSQL and vector data. Even OpenAI relies on Cosmos DB to dynamically scale ChatGPT—one of the fastest-growing consumer apps ever—delivering high reliability with minimal maintenance.

The Cosmos DB team is seeking a Software Engineer II to help enhance the scalability and reliability of the Cosmos DB Control Plane—the global system that manages account provisioning, configuration, security, and related operations. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineers both within the team and across Azure to design, architect, and implement solutions that power mission-critical workloads worldwide. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow, innovate, and make a lasting impact in a rapidly evolving industry, we’d love to have you on 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.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We foster a culture of inclusion, growth, and innovation, built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability. If you're passionate about driving meaningful impact, solving complex problems, and contributing to a growing organization, we would love to hear from you. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ years of experience building cloud native distributed applications.

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 Qualifications:

• Experience building cloud native distributed applications
• Experience with NoSQL databases
  

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 October 12 th 2025.

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• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements, incorporate feedback, and create clear design documents and technical specifications to guide implementation.
• Develop, implement, and maintain extensible, reliable, and reusable code
• Design and execute test strategies that ensure quality, prevent regressions, and validate security.
• Support live-site operations on a rotational, on-call basis; quickly diagnose, mitigate, and escalate issues
• Improve troubleshooting guides, telemetry and automation to enhance on-call effectiveness. Recommend user-facing documentation and additional test coverage to reduce future incidents.
• Embody our culture and values