Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Microsoft Careers Skip to main content Microsoft Careers Careers Careers Search Search jobs Sign in Single PositionView All JobsSenior Site Reliability EngineerUnited States, Washington, RedmondApply nowAdd to cartFind out how well you match with this jobUpload your resumeJob descriptionCompany and benefitsJob number200043923Date postedJul 21, 2026Work site3 days / week in-officeTravelLess than 25%ProfessionSoftware EngineeringDisciplineSite Reliability EngineeringRole typeIndividual ContributorEmployment typeFull-TimeOverviewMicrosoft 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 believe in making the day in the life of the On-Call Engineer boring while living up to the expectations of a massive cloud service with stringent Service Level Objectives (SLO’s). We do this by thinking differently, stretching ourselves to go all the way to the root of the problem, keeping data in front and center for all our decisions and taking a systems approach for generating outcomes that far exceeds the expectations. Helping attain the aspirational Service Level Objectives (SLO’s) through pragmatic innovation is what sets the SRE’s in Cosmos DB apart. If you share the same purpose, cause and belief and have passion to follow this pursuit, please read the rest of the Job description on what we do, and we would love to have you join us!Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s next generation of 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 incredibly talented engineers operating like a startup and be at the forefront of building and shaping the Livesite Automation and AI Ops stack in Cosmos DB and lead the path for broader adoption across Microsoft Azure.Cosmos DB is a database of choice for the spectrum spanning from the hobbyist developer to the largest of Fortune 500 companies. The database provides the data backbone of many critical systems in Health Care, Retail, Telecommunications, IoT and many more where the Service Availability and Latency is paramount. Cosmos DB provides financially backed SLA (service level agreements) around 99.99 Availability and < 10 MS Latency and we are responsible of upholding ourselves to even more stringent Service Level Objectives (SLO) that delight our customers. Other than a resilient and fault tolerant architecture, a key to attaining the SLO’s is automating the root cause analysis and mitigation of issues and a lot of times proactively addressing the issues even before any customer impact. This team supports on building systems where...