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Microsoft Innovation Center

Senior Software Engineer

Hybrid

Redmond, United states

$ 258,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

16-11-2025

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Skills

Python Java JavaScript C# Go SQL Big Data Data Engineering PostgreSQL Security Policies and Procedures Azure Data Factory Azure Cosmos DB Azure Synapse Analytics Databases power bi Organization Azure Cost Management C++ Analytics

Job Specifications

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, providing a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the data integration team builds data gravity on  the Microsoft  Cloud. Massive volumes of data are generated – not just from transactional systems of record, but also from the world around us.  Our data integration products – Azure Data Factory and Power Query make it easy for customers to bring in, clean, shape, and join data, to extract intelligence.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Orchestration team, you will work on the core Azure Data Factory services. You will learn best practices in the job and help us build an even better service. As we continue to evolve the service, we are now working on Fabric Pipelines. This is a brand-new space and an opportunity to build an even better service.

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 .

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Implements reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions across teams. Contributes to design documents. Owns implementation and rollback plans. Maintains quality checklist and related documentation with minimal guidance. Quantifies and ensures the health and compliance of a service according to Engineering and industry standards with minimal guidance.
Collaborates within and across teams (e.g., within Service Engineering, across a service) by proactively and systematically sharing information with an appropriate level of detail for their audience. Proactively manages dependencies for their work with others. Develops and leverages information and knowledge base (e.g., customer, product, industry, troubleshooting guides) to contribute to conversations within their team with minimal supervision.
Identifies security issues and recommends potential mitigation strategies to address underlying causes. Develops security guidance and models to address issues and to contribute to the definition of best practices. Suggests and drives appropriate guidance , models, response, and remediation for issues. Troubleshoots system issues and partners with engineering teams to conduct root cause analyses. Communicates and drives adherence to security policies and procedures.
Contributes to service design by identifying and recommending optimal configurations of technology components with awareness of cost management, and service health, security, resiliency and reliability, while taking into account scalability of services. Demonstrates experience in service and/or system design, interactions between technology layers and components, functions of infrastructure, and dependencies at scale.
Adjusts configurations and defines infrastructures to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance of supported products and services, with minimal guidance from other engineers.
Actively participates in collaborative reviews with the engineering teams that develop and/or manage services and other stakeholders, and shares learnings and recommendations across engineering teams and other stakeholders working on related services within their organization. Contributes to designing a service/system in a manner that allow for robust and scalable measurement of quantifiable metrics for assessing health, quality, and functionality.
Embody our culture and values .

Qualifications

Required /Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's 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.
2+ years of experience working on large scale distributed systems.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or go

About the Company

Microsoft Innovation Center provides students, customers and partners with a comprehensive set of programs and services. The goal of these centers is to foster innovation and growth in local software economies. MIC provides access to world-class resources for students, software developers, IT professionals, academic researchers and entrepreneurs. Primary areas of focus include: A. Building skills and intellectual capital through training courses, employment programs and mentoring experiences. B. Fostering industry partners... Know more