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 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 Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. ​   ​ ​​​The platform team is hiring a Software Engineer to help ensure the Fabric service is reliable and performant, reduce toil in maintaining the service, and provide a great experience to our customers.    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 with all aspects of a high throughput and multi-tenant service.   · Collaborate effectively within the team and with partner teams across Microsoft.   · Be part of the on-call rotation for maintaining service health.   · Design, implement, and refine chosen solutions in close partnership with Product Management and partner teams.   · Champion operational excellence via established metrics, process governance, and policy controls for regular assessment and improvement.   · Document and define existing data engineering processes, data and technology, while evaluating them for optimization.​ ​   Embody our  culture  and  values   Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications  ​​​​· Min. 2 years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.   ​​· OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration   · OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.  · 2+ years’ experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python etc.   · Experience writing code to automate day-to-day tasks.​​  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   ​​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.​  Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP)   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,