Software Engineer
Microsoft · Posted Nov 4
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team builds data platform products including Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI. Within Microsoft Fabric’s Data Integration team and the Azure Messaging team, this role focuses on the infrastructure behind services such as Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus. The Software Engineer will develop software and automation for cluster provisioning, safe upgrades, fleet health, capacity management, deployment pipelines, diagnostics, and developer tooling.
What you will do
- Develop and maintain software for cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
- Build automation and self-service tooling that simplify recurring operational workflows and reduce manual intervention.
- Improve deployment pipelines, automated tests, release validation, diagnostics, and developer workflows.
- Use telemetry and debugging tools to investigate failures, identify root causes, and implement lasting improvements.
- Contribute to fleet health, capacity management, free-pool optimization, and cluster autoscaling.
- Support new region and cloud deployments and help validate new compute, storage, and Service Fabric capabilities.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers and partner teams to design, test, deploy, and support scoped features.
- Document solutions, participate in code reviews, and apply secure and reliable engineering practices.
- Embody Microsoft's culture and values.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 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.
- Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and asynchronous programming.
- Experience developing and debugging software in C#, Java, C++, Python, or a comparable language.
- Familiarity with a cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Interest or experience in infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, automated testing, or developer tooling.
- Ability to use logs, metrics, and experiments to investigate problems and evaluate solutions.
- Clear communication, collaborative problem-solving, and willingness to learn unfamiliar systems.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, messaging services, or infrastructure lifecycle management is helpful, but not required.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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