Overview:

Job 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 databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

The Fabric App Dev team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the foundation of data app platform on Microsoft Fabric. This team owns the development of the data app platform on Microsoft Fabric, enabling developers to build, manage, and operate applications with simplicity and SaaS-like efficiency.

As a key member of this newly formed team, you will work on delivering core capabilities for Data Apps on Fabric. You will contribute to designing and implementing core capabilities in products like API for GraphQL, User Data Functions that are leveraged to build rich apps on Fabric. This role offers the opportunity to work across the entire stack—from backend distributed systems, Web UX to developer experience tooling like VS Code—while collaborating across teams in Microsoft Fabric and other Azure organizations. This will give you opportunity to influence end-to-end product direction. You will thrive in an environment that values innovation, ambiguity, and technical depth, and play a mentorship role in shaping the team culture as we scale.

If you are passionate about building high-quality platforms, solving complex technical challenges, and influencing the future of data app development, we’d love to hear from you.

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:

Job Responsibilities

• Design, code, deliver and operate core Fabric App products, including distributed cloud services and developer tools.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate Fabric App capabilities with other Microsoft Fabric services.

• Contribute to architecture and design discussions, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and developer productivity.

• Drive technical excellence through code reviews, best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

• Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring and investigating services for degradation, downtime and resolve technical issues to ensure service reliability and performance.

• Lead continuous improvement of development processes and tools for the engineering efficiency.

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of Full stack/backend web application development experience and building and operating cloud services at scale.
• 4+ years of experience building applications using public cloud platforms like Azure, AWS or GCP.

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Preferred/Additional Qualifications :

• ​​Master's 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience building developer tooling like CLI, VS Code extensions, SDK for languages including, but not limited to, javascript, python.

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.

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.