Senior Software Engineering
Microsoft
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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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.
The Cosmos Analytics Platform team within Azure Data is hiring Senior Software Engineer to drive the evolution, reliability, and performance of Microsoft's hyperscale big data platform—Cosmos. This team builds and operates foundational infrastructure that powers mission-critical data analytics workloads across Microsoft. The team works on core platform components, complex distributed systems problems, modernizing the compute platforms, live-site excellence, and developer experience improvements.
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.
Responsibilities
* Design and evolve core execution, scheduling, and resource‑management systems that power Cosmos Analytics at hyperscale, ensuring high performance, predictability, and operational excellence.
* Evolve core platform capabilities for performance‑sensitive and ML/AI‑heavy workloads. Includes large scale shuffle data‑management, ARM based compute, GPU accelerated execution paths and secure containerization.
* Collaborate across Azure services (Fabric, Storage, ACI, and Capacity teams) to land cross‑service features, remove architectural bottlenecks, and ensure platform readiness for large‑scale customer scenarios.
* Lead critical reliability and live‑site improvements by diagnosing deep distributed‑systems issues, strengthening failover paths, and driving measurable reductions in incident load and mitigation times.
* Raise engineering quality and velocity by contributing to diagnostics, tooling, automated validation, and mentorship that strengthens the overall technical bar of the team.
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.
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, secure services and debugging complex, multi‑component production issues.
- Familiarity with cloud environments (e.g., Azure) and service deployment/operations.
- Hands‑on with big‑data execution engines (Spark, SCOPE) and cluster orchestration.
- Practical exposure to containerization (Docker/OCI), orchestration (Kubernetes/Service Fabric), and image/build pipelines.
Preferred/Additional Qualifications
- Experience with shuffle systems and data‑movement pipelines (concepts like partitioning, spill/merge, locality).
- Background in ARM compute and/or GPU acceleration; performance tuning on heterogeneous hardware.
- Proven cross‑team collaboration, ability to drive clarity in ambiguous spaces, and excellent technical communication.
Job Requirements: Other & Additional
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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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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