Senior Software Engineer

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 sky is the limit of thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data is leading the transformation of how the world works with data, by building “Microsoft Fabric”, a data cloud platform that can cater to all customer needs around data, starting from databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, to business intelligence, reporting etc. Microsoft Fabric is a game changer in the world of data through cutting edge technology and innovation, making it quoting Satya – the biggest data product launch since SQL server. 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 data integration team builds data gravity on the Microsoft Cloud. Massive volumes of data are generated – touching Exabytes of scale through billions of jobs, not just from transactional systems of record, but also from the world around us.  Our data integration products –Azure Data Factory and PowerQuery make it easy for customers to bring in, clean, shape, and join data, to extract intelligence.

The Fabric Data Movement team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team. This team is in charge of designing, building, and operating a data ingestion platform that transfers large volumes of data from various source systems to target systems with minimal latency while providing a data centric orchestration platform. The team focuses on advanced data ingestion scenarios like bulk data, incremental data (CDC), replication, through a range of compute options over cloud and on-premise gateways, that can scale infinitely to meet ever increasing demands in the age of data.

Come join this team in a “once in a lifetime” opportunity, in learning the breadth of the data space and solving some of the toughest problems in the industry that no one else is better suited to solve. This team is the place to be if you are looking to experience the true satisfaction from building products that impact everyone around you.

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

• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
• Applies debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products. Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems.
• Reviews the code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area. Applies feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered. Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices.
• Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects. Partially owns solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact. Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions. Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
• Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tes