Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Moving data reliably at cloud scale is one of the hardest problems in the industry, and it is the foundation every analytics and AI scenario depends on. On the Fabric Data Factory team, you will build and own the Data Factory workload within Microsoft Fabric, the unified analytics platform. You will work on pipelines, dataflows, and related tooling that help customers move, transform, and orchestrate large volumes of data across diverse sources and destinations. Your work will sit at the intersection of distributed systems, big data engineering, and cloud-native development, where you will take on challenges in throughput, fault tolerance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Fabric Data Factory team where you will participate across the full engineering lifecycle, from authoring experiences and runtime execution through monitoring, diagnostics, and live-site reliability. You will partner with teams across Fabric, Azure Data Factory, and Power Query to deliver enterprise-grade solutions for workloads ranging from simple data copy tasks to multi-stage ETL pipelines. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your expertise in distributed systems at cloud scale, broaden your technical influence across partner engineering teams, and grow your impact on a platform used by enterprise customers worldwide.

At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape whats next for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Designs and owns core Data Factory artifacts, including pipelines and dataflows, that support enterprise-scale data integration workloads with high throughput, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Understands customer and user requirements for a project or sub-section of a product and translates them into technical designs.
• Applies artificial intelligence (AI) tools responsibly across the full software development lifecycle, takes ownership of AI-generated assets, and experiments to improve capabilities.
• Leads by example in code quality by conducting timely, insightful code reviews, upholding standards, security, and compliance, and coaching engineers using automated analysis tools integrated into the build process.
• Designs and owns test strategies that prevent regression, incorporate security testing, and cover edge and negative cases. Builds testable code from the start and identifies hard-to-test areas for future rearchitecture.
• Leads architecture discussions for complex features by creating and iterating on design documents, evaluating trade-offs, and ensuring performance, scalability, and resiliency requirements are met.
• Collaborates with teams across Fabric and Azure to resolve dependency and ownership conflicts.
• Plans and delivers features with full lifecycle ownership by breaking work into tracked tasks, managing feature flighting and rollback plans, and automating deployments following safe-change practices.
• Owns live-site reliability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) by integrating telemetry and observability, responding to incidents within service-level agreements, driving postmortems and root-cause fixes, and improving troubleshooting guides and on-call practices.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Additional 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 Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

• TypeScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

• Experience building modern web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or similar technologies.

• Experience designing and implementing accessible, responsive, and highly performant user experiences.

• Experience building customer-facing applications for cloud, analytics, data, or enterprise software platforms.

• Familiarity with front-end performance optimization, telemetry, experimentation frameworks, and customer usage analytics.

• Experience collaborating closely with UX designers to deliver polished, user-centered product experiences.

• Passion for delivering modern, high-quality user experiences in browser-based environments.

• Strong customer focus and the ability to simplify complex technical workflows through thoughtful design and engineering.

• Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines.

• A deep curiosity and willingness to question the status quo.

• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, and self-motivation in a fast-paced environment.

• A love for tackling the next problem, the next experiment, and the next partnership.

• Committed to working collaboratively, solving problems with teams across the world, and finding win-win solutions.

• A deep passion and empathy for customers, leading to innovative problem-solving.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.