Senior Software Engineer

Do you have a desire to help shape the emerging data platform ecosystem with Cloud and Enterprise into a competitive differentiator? Do you want to lead the effort of enabling millions of Microsoft Customers and Partners by delivering key insights on big data? Do you want to solve challenges that you didn’t even know existed until you get to a large scale of data? What about working directly with engineering counterparts and assorted business teams to influence how azure products, services, and business plans within Microsoft Commerce are operationalized and monetized?   

  
The goal of CPX core commerce services team is to foster a data-driven culture, to encourage and enable the azure customers and partners to make more informed decisions through data. As part of that work, the team develops and operationalizes the high scale distributed data platform that enables Microsoft customers to realize and manage cloud costs and partner teams to operationalize their goals.  

As the volume of data and the demand for solutions grows, we need a strong and experienced technician who can architect, deliver and manage data solutions.  

Basic Qualifications:  

• 5+ years of commercial software development.   
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field.   
• Great coding and design skills (C#, C++ or Java)   
• Strong communication skills in English.   

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Experience with Open Source Big Data Stack such as Hadoop, HIVE, SPARK etc.  
• Experience leading and delivering projects that span multiple engineering organizations    
• Experience building and operating high scale and fault-tolerant data services.  
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms and distributed systems  
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).  
• Experience working in a fast-paced/competitive environment, and have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.  
• Gets excited with hard technical problems and solve them with deep passion and empathy for customers.  

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: 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.  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. 

#CPXjobs  

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define functional requirements   
• Design & develop APIs and user experiences on Big Data.   
• Own technical design of components with overall systems view.   
• Define cost estimates and execution plan for features.    
• Design, code, test and deploy features using CI/CD model.   
• Define metrics and alerts to monitor health of services.    
• Architect, Design, develop and maintain reliable and scalable big data pipelines and Storage solutions at Azure scale supporting sub second query response.  
• Own Technical design and delivery of projects with holistic system view.