Senior Software Engineer-Distributed System

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

19h

About The Position

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team builds data platform products across databases, data integration, analytics, messaging, and business intelligence. The Databases organization delivers scalable operational databases for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, supporting critical workloads and AI-native application development.

The Azure Cosmos DB Gateway team is hiring a Software Engineer to work on the critical front-end data plane for a globally distributed database service. The Gateway sits on the request path between customers and Azure Cosmos DB, processing trillions of requests daily across hundreds of clusters worldwide. The team owns the scalability, availability, performance, and operational excellence of this infrastructure and is developing a next-generation Gateway to increase throughput, reduce latency, improve resiliency, and lower infrastructure costs.

This role designs and builds highly available, high-performance distributed systems and infrastructure for Cosmos DB Gateway applications. The position works across request routing, connection management, networking, caching, load balancing, resource management, service reliability, and performance optimization. It also involves collaboration with Azure Cosmos DB partners, influencing architectures and standards, and creating reusable service libraries and practices. The role is listed as Software Engineering IC4. Applicants must meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly available, high-performance distributed systems that operate at massive scale.
• Build infrastructure for Cosmos DB Gateway applications.
• Work on request routing, connection management, networking, caching, load balancing, resource management, service reliability, and performance optimization for Cosmos DB workloads running in Gateway mode.
• Develop expertise in Azure technologies and distributed database systems.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to design and build features that drive service growth.
• Influence and create designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Build reusable libraries of services practices for other teams to leverage.
• Participate in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Embody Microsoft’s Culture and Values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior