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 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.​

​​DW SWIFT is a full-stack engineering team at the heart of Fabric SQL Data Warehouse, focused on building world-class infrastructure and engineering systems to accelerate feature development and delivery for the next-generation SaaS Enterprise Data Warehouse. Our mission is to enable rapid, predictable, and high-quality product releases by driving core changes across both the product and its surrounding systems. Our primary customers are internal – engineers, release managers and the leadership team. We tackle complex challenges such as deployment automation, cluster provisioning, branching strategies, and robust validation pipelines—leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including AI, to streamline engineering workflows and shift quality left.

​​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:

​• Build and maintain highly reliable cluster/distributed environments and enable engineers to rapidly deploy bits and verify their changes end to end

• Design, develop and maintain highly reliable engineering systems and infrastructure that enable building world class products leveraging new technologies and AI
• Work with a large set of engineers across orgs and teams to troubleshoot issues, find root causes and bring them to closure
• Support development teams and internal stakeholders by maintaining and running tight and efficient engineering systems and services
• Partner with stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical leads) to define product requirements and create technical designs for future product capabilities
• Collaborate with members within and across teams at Microsoft
• Produce extensible and maintainable code with a focus on security, reliability, diagnosability, and performance
• Lead design discussions with the team and share learnings from investigations, holding ownership for design decisions
• Contribute to the roadmap, architecture, design and planning
• Participate in on-call rotation for maintaining service health along with other things

Qualifications:

​​Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Statistics or Physics OR equivalent experience.

• Some experience in design and development of computing systems

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment working with several teams to develop production quality software

• Proven track record in delivering reliable, scalable and highly performant end-to-end solutions

• Excellent communication and demonstrated ability to drive cross-team improvements

• Hands-on engineering experience developing and managing scalable cloud services​

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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Experience working on infrastructure, engineering systems, and deployments supporting development of largescale enterprise-class distributed systems software
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS or GCP
• Experience in building and maintaining reliable environments and infrastructure services​

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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.