Software Development Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Development Engineer (Backend)
• Team focus: Azure Data / Microsoft Fabric platform for unified data, governance, security, and data model
• Work model: High-throughput, multi-tenant service development with on-call rotation

Description

Design and build AI-native backend components for a unified data intelligence platform. You will develop high-throughput, multi-tenant services, improve operational excellence through metrics and policy controls, and partner closely with Product and other teams. Contribute to documentation and on-call support to maintain service health.

Responsibilities

• Work across all aspects of a high throughput and multi-tenant service
• Collaborate with team and partner teams across Microsoft
• Design, implement, and refine solutions in partnership with Product Management and partner teams
• Improve operational excellence using established metrics, process governance, and policy controls
• Document and define data engineering processes, data, and technology; evaluate for optimization
• Participate in an on-call rotation for maintaining service health

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline with proven coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience)
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years
• 1+ years developing services on major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) and familiarity with standard cloud design patterns
• Expertise in AI-native development using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot/CLI, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor) across the full software development lifecycle