22 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of the Universal Counter System for event ingestion, stateful processing, near-real-time aggregation, low-latency serving, observability, and governance.
- Make architectural decisions across distributed systems, data processing, identity, privacy, compliance, reliability, and multi-tenant design.
- Write and review production code and establish engineering and operational standards.
- Guide solutions from design through operation for reliable, high-performance, globally distributed services.
- Use Azure, Flink, Spark, and related technologies to modernize real-time data platforms.
- Advance AI-native development through coding agents, agentic workflows, and harness engineering while maintaining human review, automated testing, security, and production-quality standards.
- Partner with engineering and product teams across Microsoft to define requirements, align technical direction, and deliver end-to-end data solutions.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across Microsoft organizational boundaries.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred experience designing, developing, and operating reliable, large-scale, globally distributed production systems for real-time or near-real-time data processing.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Apache Flink, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes, Azure Event Hubs, or related distributed streaming and cloud platforms.
- Preferred experience using AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle.
- Preferred ability to review agent-generated code and pull requests with production-grade rigor.
- Preferred ability to influence without authority, align teams, and build partnerships with engineers, product managers, and leaders.
- Preferred technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, and understanding of data privacy, compliance, and security in large-scale distributed systems.
- A master’s degree with 6+ years of experience or a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience is preferred, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- The role is based in Redmond, Washington and requires working in the office at least 3 days per week.
- The position includes the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.