Azure Cosmos DB Developer

Role: Azure Cosmos DB Developer

Location: Phoenix AZ

Job Type: Contract

Rate: $60/hr

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Developer with strong expertise in designing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications running on Azure Cosmos DB. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with high-availability, high-throughput, always-on enterprise applications and be comfortable working across architecture, development, performance optimization, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and optimize Azure Cosmos DB solutions for high-volume transactional workloads.

Develop effective data modeling and partitioning strategies based on application requirements.

Design and optimize partition keys, indexing policies, queries, and data lifecycle strategies.

Monitor and optimize RU/s consumption, throughput, latency, and database performance.

Troubleshoot production issues, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement corrective actions.

Support deployments, schema evolution, capacity planning, and production incident resolution.

Design and support highly available, scalable, and resilient Cosmos DB architectures.

Implement multi-region deployment, global distribution, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.

Work closely with application, infrastructure, DevOps, and architecture teams to integrate Cosmos DB with Azure services.

Support Change Feed processing and event-driven application patterns.

Utilize monitoring and observability tools to identify and resolve database and application performance issues.

Develop operational runbooks, technical documentation, engineering standards, and best practices.

Provide recommendations for cost optimization, scalability, reliability, and long-term platform improvements.

Required Qualifications

7+ years of software engineering and database development experience.

3+ years of hands-on Azure Cosmos DB experience in production environments.

Strong experience with:

Azure Cosmos DB data modeling

Partition key design and partitioning strategies

Query optimization and performance tuning

RU/s and throughput optimization

Indexing policies

Change Feed processing

Multi-region deployment and global distribution

High availability and disaster recovery

Monitoring and observability

Experience supporting high-volume, mission-critical, always-on enterprise applications.

Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.