Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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 Azure Data Analytics team builds the core analytics experiences in Microsoft Fabric. We own the Data Warehouse, Data Engineering, Data Science, AI, and Power BI workloads, enabling customers to ingest, transform, analyze, and derive insights from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data at enterprise scale. Our team is at the center of Microsoft's strategy to deliver a seamless, end-to-end analytics experience in Fabric.

​​The Fabric Data Engineering Experience & Infrastructure team is hiring to help build world best Data Engineering platform. You will deliver sophisticated capabilities that are enabling users to design, build, and maintain Data Engineering infrastructure and systems that allow organizations to collect, store, process, and analyze massive volumes of data.

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.

• Work closely with a passionate team of engineers to deliver impactful solutions that drive customer success
• Drive design and implementation, test, ship, and support large-scale services and components that power Fabric Data Engineering experiences, with industry leading quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and security
• Collaborate with Product Management to define product requirements, validate specifications, and align on customer and business needs
• Apply a growth mindset to tackle complex technical problems and deliver innovative, high-quality solutions
• Contribute to a team culture centered on learning, continuous improvement, engineering excellence, and high-quality execution
• Support and lead live site operations, ensuring service health, availability, and rapid mitigation of issues
• Mentor and support peers, helping grow the team’s collective capabilities and enabling shared success

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND proven technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

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/Additional Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND substantial technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#/.NET or equivalent backend languages
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • AND significant technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#/.NET or equivalent backend languages.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large scale backend or distributed systems
• Experience leading technical design for services or platforms
• Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating scalable cloud services
• Track record of owning critical systems with high reliability and operational excellence
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and operations teams

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.