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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft 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. DocumentDB is an open-source, PostgreSQL-based NoSQL database that brings together the scalability of document stores and the reliability of relational systems. Our mission is to make PostgreSQL the best database for modern, document-oriented workloads - powering next-generation cloud-native applications with flexibility, performance, and AI-first features.We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a background in systems design/databases to join the Azure CosmosDB for MongoDB team. As a key member of the engineering team, you will be part of a geographically distributed and diverse team of highly talented software engineers in the Relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (Mongo) space, developing features spanning the query engine, index structures and storage layouts. 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.
Responsibilities Design and implement new features in the Query/Indexing areas to add new capabilities and help improve performance of NoSQL queriesEngage with the OSS community for PostGreSQL / DocumentDB to help develop new features and contribute improvements back to OSS code.Profile and analyze distributed system to identify performance bottlenecks.Work across team and organizational boundaries to drive clarity and alignment.Conduct and participate in design/code reviews and help shape and steer the team coding guidelines.Coaching and mentorship of fellow team members.Embody our culture and values | |