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 Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. 

OneLake team is hiring for Software Engineer — OneLake is the unified, logical data lake at the heart of the Microsoft Fabric platform, often described as the “OneDrive for data.” It provides a single, SaaS-based, multi-cloud data lake that automatically integrates with every Fabric tenant, eliminating fragmented storage silos and enabling seamless data sharing across workloads. Built on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, OneLake supports open data formats like Delta Parquet, allowing multiple analytical engines—such as T-SQL, Apache Spark, and Analysis Services—to operate on the same data without duplication. For a software engineer, this means working on cutting-edge capabilities like API parity with Azure Storage, cross-cloud virtualization through shortcuts, and high-performance client components that optimize data access across ecosystems. The role offers opportunities to innovate in areas like governance, diagnostics, and integration with advanced analytics platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant solutions for a truly data-driven enterprise.

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

• Design and implement scalable backend services, ensuring high availability, low latency, and reliability across multi-cloud environments.
• Drive end-to-end ownership of components, from requirement gathering through development, testing, deployment, and post-production quality assurance.
• Collaborate across disciplines—engineering, PM, and customer teams—to deliver features that simplify data access and governance for global customers.
• Embed security, compliance, and observability into every stage of development to uphold operational excellence and governed self-service.
• Innovate with AI-first development practices, leveraging modern tech stacks (C#, Service Fabric, Spark, Kusto) to accelerate quality and velocity.
  
  

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 1+ years technical engineering experience with design, building robust & scalable solutions in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud service development.
• Technical problem solving and debugging skills.
  
  

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.
  
  

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

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.
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP)

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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