Senior Software Engineer

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 in 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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.​

​​As a Senior Software Engineer in the Big Data Analytics team, you will contribute to the cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed platform services that enable the Spark experience in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics, as well as help us evolve and modernize Microsoft’s Cosmos big data platform.

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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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

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

Other Requirements

• 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

• Advanced experience designing, building, and operating scalable distributed systems.
• Mid-level experience in a technical lead capacity or equivalent.
• Experience with modern infrastructure development practices such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevOps, platform engineering, or related.
• Experience with Azure, AWS or other cloud computing platforms.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and/or Azure Service Fabric.​

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.

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• ​​Design and implement software components and automation with good quality, maintainability, and end to end ownership.
• Provide technical leadership, create clarity, and help grow the capabilities of the team.
• Collaborate effectively within the team and with partner teams across Microsoft.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of existing infrastructure, tools, and systems.
• Provide help and guidance to partner teams and customers, as needed.
• Remain current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current internal and external developments and technologies to improve our services, automation, and processes.​
• Embody our culture and values