Software Engineer II

Microsoft
$100,600.00 - $199,000.00 / yr
United States, Washington, Redmond
Mar 12, 2026
Overview Microsoft is a company of passionate innovators who collaborate to envision the future and take their careers further in a world of limitless possibilities. Innovation and openness are at the core of our culture as we operate in a cloudenabled world. We are hiring a Software Engineer II to join the Azure Data Engineering team. The Microsoft Azure Data Engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics, data platforms, and data integration across Microsoft, spanning databases, big data analytics, messaging, realtime analytics, and business intelligence.Our product portfolio includes Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL Database, 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 AI, enabling new datafirst applications and fostering a strong data culture. The Azure Data Databases team builds and maintains operational database systems that store and manage application data, delivering developerfriendly, missioncritical, AIenabled operational databases across relational, nonrelational, and opensource offerings. Azure Cosmos DB is a big data analytics SaaS platform providing scalable compute and storage for missioncritical workloads. It serves as a central repository where teams can ingest, store, process, query, and share structured and unstructured data. Available to firstparty customers as a shared, multitenant service, Cosmos supports a rich ecosystem of big data tools and solutions developed by both Microsoft and the customer community. The team uses AI tools, including Copilots and internal platforms, to drive datadriven insights throughout product discovery, design, validation, and execution. We collaborate closely with stakeholders to design new platform capabilities, validate them with customers, and bring them to market-while actively seeking diverse perspectives and tapping into the collective power of our people to better serve our customers. Responsibilities Design, implement, and ship productiongrade features for the Cosmos service (Control Plane, Data Plane, or Compute Platform). Own components or features endtoend: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support. Write highquality, maintainable, and performant code following engineering best practices and contribute to system design discussions and propose solutions for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance. Work with Azure cloud infrastructure and Azure platform services (Fabric, Storage, ACI and Capacity teams) Build and enhance components for globally distributed, multi tenant cloud services and apply cores distributed system concepts (Partitioning, replication, Fault tolerance, recover, throughout and latency optimization) Participate in code reviews and design reviews to improve quality, security, and maintainability. Investigate service incidents, perform rootcause analysis, and drive longterm fixes and contribute to service health metrics, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability improvements. Work closely with other engineers, program managers, and partner teams across Azure and communicate technical designs, progress, and risks clearly to stakeholders. Embody ourcultureandvalues Qualifications 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. 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: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience in the software insustry using coding languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python Experience with LLM APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI) and tool use. Experience to drive complex initiatives from concept to delivery. Experience with big data execution engines (Spark, SCOPE) and cluster orchestration. Experience in ARM compute and/or GPU acceleration; performance tuning on heterogeneous hardware. Experience with REST APIs, microservices, or backend development. Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, or automated testing tools Understanding of SQL, Kusto, Power BI (a strong plus). Experience with cloud technologies (Paas, Saas, Analytics & AI, DevOps and Networking). #azdat #azuredata #BigData #Cosmos #Hyperscale 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 This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.