The Senior Software Engineer role within Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team focuses on building and maintaining highly reliable engineering systems and infrastructure for the next-generation SaaS Enterprise Data Warehouse. The team is dedicated to enabling rapid, predictable, and high-quality product releases while tackling complex challenges such as deployment automation and robust validation pipelines. This position emphasizes collaboration across multiple teams and components, fostering a culture of diversity, continuous learning, and data-driven decision-making. The ideal candidate will contribute to the product vision and architecture while ensuring exceptional developer and customer experiences.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• 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.
• Experience working on infrastructure, engineering systems, and deployments supporting development of large-scale enterprise-class distributed systems software.
• Hands-on engineering experience developing and managing scalable cloud services across technologies such as Azure, AWS or GCP.

• Build and maintain highly reliable distributed environments and enable engineers to rapidly deploy bits and verify their changes end to end.
• Design, develop and maintain highly reliable engineering systems and infrastructure that enable building world-class products leveraging new technologies and AI.
• Work with a large set of engineers across orgs and teams to troubleshoot issues, find root causes and bring them to closure.
• Support development teams and internal stakeholders by maintaining and running tight and efficient engineering systems and services.
• Partner with stakeholders to define product requirements and create technical designs for future product capabilities.
• Collaborate with, mentor, and influence members within the team and across other teams at Microsoft.
• Lead by example in producing extensible and maintainable code with a focus on security, reliability, diagnosability, and performance.
• Lead design discussions with the team and share learnings from investigations, holding ownership for design decisions.
• Contribute to the product vision, roadmap, architecture, and planning.
• Participate in on-call rotation for maintaining service health along with other things.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.