Microsoft 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.

​​We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate the DocumentDB control plane—the systems that provision, scale, secure, and recover customer clusters at cloud scale. You’ll own backend services and workflows that power cluster lifecycle operations (create/update/scale/repair), automation, and reliability, working closely with partner infrastructure teams and on-call to keep production healthy.

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.

• Design and ship control plane APIs and orchestration for cluster lifecycle (provisioning, scaling, upgrades, delete)
• Build resilient workflows: idempotency, retries, state machines, and safe rollouts
• Improve reliability/observability: SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and incident response tooling
• Drive operational excellence: runbooks, automation, and performance/cost improvements
• Strong backend engineering skills and production ownership mindset
• Experience with distributed systems, cloud services, and operational debugging
• Comfortable working across teams on dependencies and release coordination

Embody our culture and values

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.

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