Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200058571

Date posted

Oct 13, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

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 Microsoft Fabric, the Data Analytics team delivers the core analytics experiences that allow customers to turn data into insight and action. Spanning data engineering, data warehousing, data science, and AI, this team enables end-to-end scenarios on a single, unified platform. By bringing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data together, the team is advancing our mission to provide a seamless analytics experience that drives real business impact at enterprise scale.

Our team builds and operates core data engineering experiences and platform services that enable customers to develop, execute, monitor, and troubleshoot data and AI workloads at scale. Our portfolio spans Fabric Lakehouse, Notebooks, Spark, monitoring and observability, reliability, and intelligent developer experiences, providing foundational capabilities for customers to build and operate modern data solutions on a unified platform.

The team is hiring Senior Software Engineer to lead engineering strategy and execution across these experiences and services, drive innovation in AI-powered developer workflows, and deliver highly scalable, reliable, and secure solutions for customers.

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.

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

• Drive the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure capabilities across Microsoft Fabric data engineering experiences and platform services, including Lakehouse, Notebooks, Spark, and monitoring.
• Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-component initiatives, shaping architecture and engineering strategy across multiple services and teams.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects, from technical design and implementation through production readiness, launch, and ongoing improvement.
• Solve challenging distributed systems and data platform problems at en