Azure Cosmos DB Engineer — Global, High-Throughput

Insight Global; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Developer to design, implement, and support large-scale Cosmos DB-based applications on Azure. The role emphasizes high availability, throughput optimization, and global distribution.

You will balance architecture responsibilities with day-to-day operational support, performance tuning, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless Azure integration and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering and database development experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume workloads.
• Define data modeling, partitioning, indexing, and data lifecycle management.
• Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable Cosmos DB solutions.
• Monitor RU consumption, throughput, latency, and database performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize performance bottlenecks.
• Support deployments, schema evolution, capacity planning, and incident resolution.
• Collaborate with application, infra, and architecture teams for optimal Azure integration.
• Establish disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• Create runbooks, documentation, and engineering standards.
• Provide cost optimization, scalability, and long-term platform improvement recommendations.

Skills

Cosmos DB modeling

RU/s tuning

Multi-region deployment

Azure services

Query optimization

Performance monitoring

Distributed systems

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Functions

App Services

AKS

Event Hubs

Service Bus

Application Insights

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Developer to design, implement, and support large-scale Cosmos DB-based applications on Azure. The role emphasizes high availability, throughput optimization, and global distribution.

You will balance architecture responsibilities with day-to-day operational support, performance tuning, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless Azure integration and cost efficiency.