Software Engineer

Overview

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 Microsoft Fabric, the Data Integration team enables organizations to connect, move, and shape data across their entire data estate. As data is generated across applications, devices, and systems, our integration capabilities make it easy to ingest, transform, and prepare data for downstream use. Fabric’s unified integration experience simplifies how customers bring data together, ensuring it is trusted, usable, and ready to power analytics, real-time insights, and AI scenarios.

The Azure Messaging team builds and operates the infrastructure behind Azure Event Hubs and Azure Service Bus, enabling customers around the world to stream events and reliably connect applications.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help make this platform easier to deploy, operate, and scale. You will develop software and automation for cluster provisioning, safe upgrades, fleet health, and capacity management. You will also improve the engineering systems our team uses every day - from deployment pipelines and automated validation to diagnostics and developer tooling.

Working alongside experienced engineers, you will own well-defined projects from implementation through testing and deployment. You will have opportunities to contribute to new region and cloud buildouts, evaluate emerging Azure infrastructure, and develop capabilities such as cluster autoscaling.

This role combines software development with hands-on experience operating distributed cloud services. Your contributions will reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and help the platform grow safely.

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

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.

Embody our culture and values

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.

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.

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.

Internal Recruiter Guidance - Not for Publication

Prioritize software engineering fundamentals and demonstrated automation/problem-solving ability. Azure Messaging, Service Fabric, and fleet-management experience should be differentiators, not prerequisites for an L60 candidate. The role should provide senior mentorship and scoped project ownership rather than independent architecture or ownership of the entire fleet.

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 reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers).

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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.

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