Software Engineer II

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.​

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The Big Data Infra Services team builds and maintains the infrastructure that powers Microsoft Fabric Spark, Azure Synapse Spark, and Cosmos Analytics. These services operate at massive scale and execute millions of Spark jobs daily.

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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.

Responsibilities

• ​​Contribute to the design and architecture of product features.
• Create and implement high-quality, extensible, and maintainable code for new features.
• Assure new features meet Microsoft's high quality standards by creating and executing test plans.
• Work cross-team to deepen knowledge of product features, executes project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Work cross-team to deepen knowledge of product features, executes project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Work on call to monitor services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.​

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Masters or ​​Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 
• Mid-level technical engineering experience 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

• Demonstrated experience working with distributed systems application development.
• Demonstrated experience anticipating, mitigating, and resolving service issues on a recurring basis, in a large-scale, distributed cloud environment.​

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. 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.

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