Software Engineer II Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's next generation 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 highly talented engineers operating like a startup, and to deliver on our next set of big challenges.

We are looking for highly motivated and self-driven individuals who are passionate in the areas of product performance, resource governance, load balancing, COGs.

We are providing the world a scalable fault tolerant world-wide replicated database and massive scale-up compute. These systems are used solve the toughest financial, IoT, warehousing, AI and state-management problems along with many other solution areas such as gaming. These solutions capture the needs of the hobbyist developer to the Fortune 500 companies. Our job is to make sure these systems are secure and meet both the security requires of industry while also driving more defense in depth. We do this by building security features such as Encryption At Rest, Firewalls, better permissions management, broad mitigations, and also by driving the overall Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process. This job requires a broad set of developer and program management skills.

Basic Qualifications:

* 2+ years of software development experience using C#, Java, C++, or C
* BS in STEM field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering)

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

A successful candidate will have:

* Demonstrated problem solving, coding and debugging skills
* Ability to debug and optimize code, and identify new areas of automation
* Customer empathy and strong collaboration skills are a must
* Excellence in software engineering practices and coding
* Experience building and operating scalable distributed systems would be a huge plus