18 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable backend and distributed data systems for large-scale processing and business-critical scenarios.
- Drive technical architecture across backend services, data platforms, storage, and processing systems.
- Translate product and data requirements into scalable technical designs and integration strategies with stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Develop, debug, optimize, and evolve production systems to improve throughput, latency, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
- Optimize performance and cost across backend services, distributed data platforms, storage systems, and high-volume data pipelines.
- Improve live-site reliability through monitoring, observability, capacity planning, fault tolerance, performance, and operational practices.
- Lead complex technical investigations and production incidents across engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and promote software engineering and data engineering best practices.
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.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or a bachelor's degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with a background in backend or full-stack development.
- Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems, high-throughput services, telemetry systems, and large-scale data processing solutions.
- Experience with cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with data engineering, including large-scale data pipelines, data platforms, storage, or distributed data processing.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, problem-solving skills, and understanding of software engineering principles.
Benefits
- Employees within a 50-mile commute of a designated U.S. Microsoft Hub are expected to work from the office at least four days per week, subject to local law and jurisdiction.
- 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.